Donald's Wall

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Whatever you think of Trump, his legacy will be this wall. Do you agree?

It would be interesting to see how that turns out for him. I suggest that the Democrats don't oppose the wall. Let him have a go.

What do you think will happen?

Personally I think it will not be logistically impossible to make a secure wall that serves the intended purpose. He has already climbed down on building a wall, saying that it will be more of a fence in places.

I think fence or wall, as a concept it will not work, the area is too large and the terrain too varied. At to moment the cartels can go round the walls that exist, but they don't bother. They go through them like a knife through butter.

A lot of what Trump wants to achieve can simply be done by enforcing already existing immigration law which the Obama administration has decided not to do, all the executive orders can be undone by a simple decree. It's not as if Obama hasn't deported anyone, I think the number could be greatly increased without much disruption.

A wall will work for it's stated purpose, the logistics are the easiest part of getting this built. People don't understand how porous this border is, here the cartels coming up thru the mountains and thru reservation lands often on foot in heavily armed platoons with the most sophisticated surveillance technology.

<--- Will personally dismantle the wall brick by brick.

If you want Mexicans to stay in Mexico, that game is an economic one. There are far better uses for the money.

Like I say, let him try. We will see.

Looks like Trump is backing away from securing the border. It was originally his #1 priority, something he would begin work on in his first day in office. Now, he's saying that his main priorities are ending TPP, allowing dirty coal, and visa reform.

This comes hot on the tail of Trump retracting his policy of banning Muslims from entering the US.

What do you know... a politician lied about their priorities

No it includes stupid assertions like that he's going to ban all Muslims, deport legal citizens, reverse the ruling on gay marriage, or whatever other overly literal interpretation and bending of his words by partisan media.

I thought we already had up a fence across the border, why a wall?

Want to do something about illegal immigration, enforce the law. That is what other countries do. One guy in my area had to be deported back to South Korea because his adoptive parents never applied to US citizenship and neither did his foster parents. This is sadly common in adoptees to find out they are not US citizens because their adopters didn't know they were supposed to apply for their US citizenship, they just assumed they were automatically US citizen. My husband was born in Germany but both his parents are US citizen and born here so he was automatically a US citizen. A new law passed in 2000 and became effective in February 2001 that all adoptees are automatically US Citizen but that only applied to those who were currently under the age of 18. The adoptee did try to get a US citizenship but because he had a criminal record, he couldn't get one so he got deported back. It was sad because he had a wife and kids so that split the family up and he reunited with his birth mother. I do think something has to be done about this part. You grow up in a country that is like your home and then you are forced to leave it and then brought into a whole different culture and you don't know the language or lifestyle or their culture. Very scary. It just seems inhumane. At least his own birth mother was willing to take him in and have him live with her but she will be a complete stranger to him.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/26/us ... ouple.html

How this happened worked the way the law is supposed to work but it doesn't cover the patch for adoptees because their adoptive parents failed to apply for a US citizenship for them because they just assumed it was automatic. I read this is very common because that law didn't pass until the year 2000 but it only applied to those under 18.

The. Wall. Will. Not. Be. Built.

I. Will. Personally. Dismantle. The. Motherf*cker.