Don't accuse your opponents' side of grandstanding unless you're ready to get it sent right back at you, and preferably not at all - I say this to everyone. All that does is raise tempers, which does no one any good.
The cost is in fact the problem, at least with the wall itself - six billion would be a lot more effective spent on personnel, facilities, and the related administrative costs to deal with the people we already catch in a timely manner if you're that hung up on border security. No matter what kind of physical barrier you try to put in place, people with go over, under, around, or through one way or another, and the ones that are serious trouble - drug runners, terrorists, violent criminals - are more likely to arrive in a plane on a tourist visa than packed into the back of a pickup driving across the desert let alone hiking it.
Or, you know, put that nickle toward not running a multi-trillion dollar debt up even higher, like a college kid with their first credit card ordering "emergency" pizza delivery for the third night in a row because the food court has a line out the door.
The cost is in fact the problem, at least with the wall itself - six billion would be a lot more effective spent on personnel, facilities, and the related administrative costs to deal with the people we already catch in a timely manner if you're that hung up on border security. No matter what kind of physical barrier you try to put in place, people with go over, under, around, or through one way or another, and the ones that are serious trouble - drug runners, terrorists, violent criminals - are more likely to arrive in a plane on a tourist visa than packed into the back of a pickup driving across the desert let alone hiking it.
Or, you know, put that nickle toward not running a multi-trillion dollar debt up even higher, like a college kid with their first credit card ordering "emergency" pizza delivery for the third night in a row because the food court has a line out the door.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus