Are you mortified about President Donald J. Trump?

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Originally Posted by Teppler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you don't have enforced borders, do you really have a country? If your house doesn't have walls that separate it from outside, is it a house?

For anyone who is against the border wall I have to ask the question. What do you think of Israel's border wall? We send them almost 40 billion per year and they find enough money to build a border wall.

We can't find 5 billion for ourselves? Our yearly budget is nearly 4 trillion. Our daily military spending is nearly 600 billion. Democrats want us to settle on 1 billion to fix up a fence because we can't find the money in the budget? Really? These people against the wall should be hung for treason.

Israeli's border wall covers a tiny, densely populated stretch of land compared to the Southern US border, and is continually garrisoned along its length. Along the lengths that are actually walled and manned, it serves a different purpose (defense, psyops) than the US wall (customs and immigration enforcement).

Walls will not stop illegal immigration. They will go around. They will take a boat. They do nothing about illegals who are already here, and most drug smuggling occurs through ports of entry. Even if walls did considerably reduce it, it's not a cost effective solution. The real solution supported by people who actually know about this issue is cracking down on employment of illegals, which neither Republicans or Democrats will EVER do because employment of illegal immigrants is supported by corporate interests and this country's elite, as well as Donald Trump.