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Originally Posted by woj
another critical detail is that the $100B someone posted earlier is for ALL immigrants, Mexico accounts for perhaps 25% of immigration to the US...
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This has nothing to do with "immigration". The issue is ILLEGAL immigration. Duh.
Anyway, I totally disagree with building a wall. In my opinion it's un-American.
When I was in school we were taught that the Berlin Wall represented everything evil in this world. And for the last few years our govt. has been talking about building one.
Now we have Trump wanting to build one (and I believe so do the rest of the Republican candidates?).
Mexico was an open border since there was a border.
The ONLY problem we have with that border is the United States' insistence on an international "War On Drugs".
Our Federal Govt. sent the DEA and military down into Columbia and disrupted and destroyed the Columbian Cocaine Cartels.
The result? Mexican drug lords filled that vacuum and violence erupted on our borders.
All of the violence and crime is being caused by the War On Drugs. The results of Drug Prohibition are the same as the ones that happened in Alcohol Prohibition of the 1920's.
Crime, violence, and criminal organizations becoming insanely wealthy.
That's what happens when the govt. decides IT has the power to make choices for people.
It didn't work with alcohol.
It hasn't worked with drugs.
Stop the stupid drug laws and get the govt. out of our lives. There won't be any "problems" at the border after that.