Why is their a wall around the Presidents House in Washington DC (The White House)? Did anybody know that former President Obama new rental digs in the suburbs of Washington DC - A new wall was put up? Just learned that Face Books CEO Zuckerberg 400 acre PLUS estate in Hawaii a wall is being erected?
Walls are as old as mankind.
Now the southern border of the US is not 100% walled, wired or fenced. Is it more feasible to use modern technical devises to monitor the wall vs. a actual "beautiful wall"? I will not alpine on that however, like what JoJo wrote, "...The wall is a symbol..." and a campaign promise.
Some things folks here may not know is that the number one export from the USofA to Mexico is cash. Cash in the form of legal and ILLEGAL workers sending their paychecks home. I have no problem with legal workers doing what they will with their honest days toil but the illegal's earning illegal money and then sending it home gets my hackles up. Then we have the cash from the drug purchases.
The last sixteen-years, President Bush and Obama have allowed the exodus of illegal people to come across our borders. These illegals take jobs, and many participate in illegal activities like: drug selling, murder, rape, child slavery, et cetera. These illegals flood our hospitals and schools and pay not one red penny to society.
So I happen to agree with many folks that want to first, close the border. Then second, round up illegals who are committing crimes and exporting them to their nation of birth rather than the illegal cash "they" export. Third, leave the non law breaking illegals alone for the moment but hold the companies feet to the fire who hire them, as they will self immigrate if they do not have a job.
Last, if a wall will help curtail their illegal return or first entry, then I am all for it.
In closing, there was actually $10B put aside for the fence in 1986 by the then President Reagan and a bipartisan Congress which in essence has been sitting on the books since then. Maybe those dollars would be better spent as some here have suggested, by using a virtual wall, which I am all for. However, some form of a wall needs to be erected - Be it stone & mortar, electrified & monitored chain link, or a wall of death rays.
