Message from @Yellowhammer
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The Wall is a important cornerstone of Trump's entire agenda. It is the single most important piece to his voters.
It is the cornerstone.
It was the first thing he mentioned
What a dumb cornerstone
You're a fucking nonce
You clearly don't get the significance of this issue
Immigration got Trump the nomination.
Immigration is an extremely significant issue, but a building project is not something that will make or break our country.
We have a hell of a lot more problems
Hell, we’re burning billions of dollars yearly to finance every third world hell hole under the sun
It will make or break our country. We cannot do anything if we do not close the leak in our boat.
And a Wall is a permanent fixture.
The wall funding would lead to significantly higher midterm turnout as well
This would be an example of the key agenda being passed by Congress, Trump voters will be incredibly happy that they're doing what they elected him for.
A wall won’t do that. It isn’t like thousands of illegal immigrants don’t climb over or dig under existing fencing and walls yearly
Are you stupid?
Do you even know how border walls work?
We need to actually deport everyone. Every last illegal, none of them should stay. I
These walls work.
And they ensure that deportations are permanent and block re-entry.
They can be helpful if they joined with other effective methods such as tight patrolling of the border, but throwing up a wall isn’t going to just fix our immigration issues magically
It is the largest part.
The most immediate effect is electorally, the symbolism of it is key.
It is permanent, as Lex said.
A Wall will significantly reduce entry EVEN IF some people get through.
I have stats on it but I'm on my phone rn.
In every single primary state Trump ran in, immigration beat every single other issue in importance to the voters.
This will help us out much more than some tax cut.
Half of illegal immigrants never even crossed the border, they’re visa overstays
So?
You still have the other half crossing in illegally.
No it won’t. Taxes effect the average American a thousand times more than Mexicans walking across the border a thousand miles away.
WHO GIVES A SHIT? That's 11 million people at the very least.
People can fund ICE whenever they wish to do that
@Yellowhammer "No it won’t. The only people who care about the wall are already voting."
that's hard to say. There haven't been any studies/research done on the right-wing voters who might be staying home. We had a guy a while back named Button Mash who claimed he'd stay home because there wasn't a wall, though he could be an extreme outlier, which wouldn't surprise me because the guy is an exceptional autist
But the wall is a permanent standing fixture. It defines, "this is Mexico, and this is the United States" and it keeps people who want to cross at bay.
if you look at all these special elections, there are large swaths of GOP voters who stayed home
and if you assume polling is accurate, there are a bunch of 'Unlikely' voters who probably lean GOP who aren't sampled in the polls because they don't claim they're likely voters
The southern border is also a heavy drug corridor, most of our heroin in the US originates from there.
We absolutely could raise our enthusiasm.
Fuck taxes. Mexicans have shifted Texas into a tossup, massively increased crime, invariably exist as a fiscal sink and are massively shifting your national culture.
Your libertarian platitudes don't answer the questions of the age.