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But if you didn’t realise, the wall is meant to tackle the majority of illegals - not sophisticated cartels.
And in fact it hurts their operations too.
The wall will only be a waste, will temporarily slow immigrants until they start paying drug makers to get in, and you don’t want drug makers to ramp up their smuggling due to more money right?
If the wall stops more illegal migrants I’ll be happy to make that trade off
Even if it’s only like
Smuggling is really failing to get passed the wall
30? 50 a year?
For a few billion dollars
And constantly millions more
90%+
I find that to be a absolute waste
I don’t see why the long run will somehow change, old fence continues to be more effective than nothing decades after.
This wall on the other hand is a massive upgrade - especially to areas that weren’t covered.
And it’s already providing a massive help to officials in the border, those numbers is testament to that.
Then the people realize they can take a few steps to the side and walk between the miles of holes in. The fences
And then when the holes are patched they start paying **cartels, who actually are bad**, to get into the country
When the realize they can’t just walk
Miles of holes?
The boarder wall atm has miles across miles of nothing there
The wall is supposed to be 1500 when completed
Right now it’s 170 miles with 760 in construction. By the time it’s all done, there won’t be any holes - apart from natural barriers.
If you want a “hole” you need to walk dozens of miles.
And then they’re just all funneling in through dull multiple areas
What?
And if you try to utterly block the boarder? Then you’re making the ACTUAL ISSUE worse
Aka drug cartels
Getting money
From smuggling people in
Dude if the wall stops 90% of migrants with a trade off - cartels get money
So be it.
And the wall would also stop cartel operations but were ignoring that for sake of argument (it has).
Then that 90% drops to 20-10% in a few months
It hasn’t in areas with old fencing
After it turns out everyone will have to pay
Most migrants can’t afford that.
They will alright
May take them months longer to cross
But they will work for the money
Ah yes I forgot Mexican migrants are growing with money
They are determined to get a better life