rats19 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:17 pm
It wouldn’t bother me one bit. They have all on video stated that a wall is needed. Do some searching you will find each one of them said a wall was required for the safety of the citizens of the United States
Bullshit!
Trump has
claimed that former presidents have said so to him in private, but all living ex president's firmly deny having said so or being in favour of a wall. Including the two Bushes (one of whom now is dead). No other president that I know of has ever talked about a wall, except Reagan, who asked Gorbachev to tear one down.
There isn't even much support for a wall within the GOP.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/01/ ... uild-wall/
Trump has had two years of a Republican Congress, and failed to get them to approve funds for a wall.
The wall is just a stupid gimmick, but Trump Thinks he needs it to get reelected.
As my friend from Berlin says: "Who the **** wants a wall?!"
A wall would be a very impracticle, expensive and devastating way of defending the border. Barbed wire and cameras/drones are better, if you even have to monitor it. Immigration from Mexico is iirc at a 50 year low.
Much of the border between the USA and Mexico consists of a river. A meandering river to boot. You can't build the wall in the middle of the river, cool as that might be. Or, I guess you could, but both Construction and maintenance would become exponentially more expensive. And as Mexico is a real country, you cannot go the Israel way of building the wall on the opposite side of the border, annexing land in the process. Instead you will have to build it on US soil, a reasonable distance from the water. This will prevent land owners, farmers and wildlife from accessing much needed water in an already hot and dry region.
A wall is simply a Very Bad Idea.
