Donald Trump's wall, and the myths that sustain it

It is not unreasonable for a sovereign nation to want the fullest possible control of its borders.

And at the risk of angering Donald Trump's critics, I don't believe the president is being isolationist or cruel when he identifies this as an issue he wants resolved as a matter of urgency.

It matters to Americans of all political persuasions, and so it rightly matters to him.

And yet - now for the bit that's going to get me in trouble with Trump's supporters - some of the president's justifications for building his "big beautiful wall" between the United States and Mexico are demonstrably misleading, at very best. .....

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It's seems to me that these vile and putrid centrists are working against the will of the people, the merkin people voted for Trimp and his wall,  he didn't hide his desire for a wall, it wasn't suddenly sprung into shock, it was all over the democrat establishment media, they can't say they didn't see it coming.

Here in Blighty it is much the same, we have a centrist remainer PM and chancellor selling us out to European Business demands pretending to negotiate with her pro Brexit ERG/DUP "extremists" and an opposition leader a life long brexiteer having to be forced along by the centrist blairite cult.

Hidden in the news today was the fact that the Lamy Verheugen plan has been actioned, the horrifying reality of a combined, coordinated and operational Franco German army soon to be enforcing EU law and strategic interests at the border between Ulster and Eire, this was signed into motion today by Merkel and Macron.

If that doesn't bring home the urgency of our leaving the EU, I don't know what will.

I agree !!!!!

Le Pen has called it "treason" and "a serious abandonment of sovereignty"!

Without being too stereotypical of the French, sometimes it appears that as long as they've Pain a l'ail, Brie de Melun and lashings of Merlot they don't mind Germans marching in their shade!

Feiglinge!

What's the myth??

He said "I'm going to build a wall to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico"

And that's what he is trying to do.

fatbob5 wrote:It is not unreasonable for a sovereign nation to want the fullest possible control of its borders.

And at the risk of angering Donald Trump's critics, I don't believe the president is being isolationist or cruel when he identifies this as an issue he wants resolved as a matter of urgency.

It matters to Americans of all political persuasions, and so it rightly matters to him.

And yet - now for the bit that's going to get me in trouble with Trump's supporters - some of the president's justifications for building his "big beautiful wall" between the United States and Mexico are demonstrably misleading, at very best. .....

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when the wall went up near Yuma crime dropped 91%

smelly-bandit wrote:What's the myth??

He said "I'm going to build a wall to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico"

And that's what he is trying to do.

the wall costs a fraction of the money spent on illegals who make it every single year