bigshank Seriously why couldn’t they take the seized drug money to pay for the wall? Then the cartel would be paying. I wonder what they do with all that cash?
The majority of drugs comes thru the ports of entry so a "wall" would be ineffective. There is no crisis at the southern border, only a manufactured crisis by Trump. Trump tries to scare people with things like caravan talk and saying thousands of terrorists are pouring in.
When actually only 6 people on the watch list came in at the southern border in a 6 month period in 2017. In comparison 42 people on the watch list tried to come in at the Canadian border.
This whole "wall" thing with Trump came out of his campaign rallies where one of his campaign advisors would use it to remind him to talk about illegal immigration.
Fox News Chris Wallace exposed the Trump administration lies a week or so when Sarah Sanders tried to further the lies. Wallace told her the majority of illegal immigration comes thru the airports with people over staying their visas. Illegal immigration numbers at the southern border has been going down for many years.
Again, there is no crisis except for the self imposed Trump administration humanitarian crisis with the people / families seeking asylum.
The only reason we have a government shutdown is because when Trump said he would sign the House and Senate CR bill a few weeks ago, right wing media types like Hannity, Limbaugh and Coulter started to mock him.
What we need is a comprehensive immigration bill, but as we know that seems to be an impossible task.
The self described master negotiator isn't living up to his own billing and because of his ineptness thousands of government workers are hurting.
Everyone is for border security, but this campaign rally reminder of a "wall" is something only Trumps cult base wants. What ever happened to Mexico will pay for it?