jazzhead wrote above:
""Building a wall" is propaganda designed to appeal to idiots. The problem of illegal immigration requires a comprehensive solution"
It certainly appealed to the "idiots" of Eastern European countries trying to deal with the migrant wave there.
For those countries that built border barriers, the "migration" was effectively... stopped. It forced the migrants to seek other routes. But the barriers worked.
The issue of "a wall" effectively separates the anti-illegal members of this forum from the pro-illegal immigration members (jazzhead appears to be one of the latter).
The reason that members like jazzhead are so opposed to a simple border barrier is because such instrumentalities simply -WORK-. A wall is a simple, passive obstruction that does the job. It prevents people from reaching the other side. And that's why the pro-illegals don't want such a thing, because they want the illegals to keep coming.
Nations have borders for the same reason that boats have hulls.
Right now, our "hull" is leaking, and the holes are deliberately being enlarged by the democrats who control the administration.
Before you can deal with the water inside, you've got to seal the hull.
Or, to put it another way, from back when I was a new recruit at Ft. Dix in 1970: The first lesson of first aid was, "stop the bleeding". Get the wound stabilized, and then deal with the injury.
A patch in the hull, a proper bandaging of the wound, a "border barrier".
All similar.
All can do the job.
Get the border sealed, first.
THEN we'll talk about what to do next.
