Some thoughts on the wall

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Most undocumented immigrants arrive by ships and planes and overstay their travel visas...so there's that.

The deadliest drug, Fentanyl, can be ordered online from China...so there's that.

The vast majority of other illegal drugs and contraband arrive via Ports of Entry...so there's that.

People who hire illegally rarely face prosecution...so there's that.

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1. Who gave Trump those index cards?

First, we know he can't read them without his glasses which he refuses to wear in public.

Second, as Pelosi pointed out the information was all wrong. Is the entire administration really that stoopid/ in the weeds?

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2. Yep to all, especially the first one.

Building a wall would have a minuscule impact on illegal immigration. Almost all illegal immigrants come here legally at first.

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3. Ladders, tunnels, catapults

When Chris Cabrera joined the U.S. Border Patrol in 2003, the job involved cruising through vast open stretches of the Rio Grande Valley trying to catch drug smugglers and migrants coming across the Texas-Mexico border. Three years later, the United States began building a fence that was supposed to keep these people out and make his job easier. It quickly became obvious it wasn’t going to work.

“We came with this 18-foot wall, and the very next day they had 19-foot ladders,” Cabrera recalled recently. “It got to the point where we had so many ladders at the station that they told us to stop bringing the ladders in. It was just insane the number of ladders we had. Hundreds upon hundreds.”

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4. Holding the hiring company financially responsible for hiring illegal aliens would fix this -

immediately. However, that will never happen because Repugs are total hypocrites and don't really want to stop the illegal hiring. They just want to hurt minorities and still be able to hire them through the back door at rates far less than any American would accept.

They also don't want to stop the opioid crisis, they are making too much money from big pharma for letting it continue. They fired the entire commission that was dealing with this and AFAIK have never replaced them ensuring nothing gets done to stop the travesty because it's financially expedient for their own pockets

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5. Truth!