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goobster  ·  2961 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: BUILD THE WALL BUILD THE WALL BUILD THE WALL

And at some point someone will point out that fully 80% of illegal immigrants in the USA came here on fucking airplanes and simply overstayed their visas.

Or that the net illegal immigration from Mexico is offset 100% by illegal aliens voluntarily going back to Mexico of their own volition.

So we are building a wall to ... protect ... what? from what?

Not to mention that if the INS actually did its job well, we would have zero fresh fruit and produce in our supermarkets, because I sure as hell don't see a lot of American citizens willing to work for $6/hr bent over in the sun all day...

At some point a senior Republican deficit hawk (Ryan? Rubio? Cruz?) is going to stand up in Congress and say these very things. And that day, my friends, will be a very interesting one, indeed.





user-inactivated  ·  2961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bro. This isn't about logic. This is about publicity.

kleinbl00  ·  2961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

At some point, someone will point out that we built a $3b border fence that didn't accomplish what the Trumpsters want.

I think that point was in 2015 sometime.

oyster  ·  2961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really hope that whatever contractors they get to build this wall get caught employing illegal immigrants.