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Trump/Mexico - Wall Made Of Sponge

I believe the wall will be weak and of no use and instead will maybe just look nice and appealing 😆

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Reply 1
Well think again a physical barrier to stop both illegal immigrants and the corrupting drug trade will prove a worth investment
Original post by Dragon5555
I believe the wall will be weak and of no use and instead will maybe just look nice and appealing 😆


The wall will not materialise at all, never mind be an effective deterrent.
Just put giant billboards on it and let the advertisers pay for it
Original post by VCBCCVBN
Well think again a physical barrier to stop both illegal immigrants and the corrupting drug trade will prove a worth investment

It's a barrier only for simpletons. There have already been tunnels, catapults, drones, planes, boats and submarines used to smuggle people / drugs into the US. What do you about large rivers? What about people paddling around the ends?

If it gets built, it'll be the largest waste of money in history. Let's put Trump in prison to keep him 'safe'.
Reply 7
Most illegal immigrants over stay their visas rather than climb over walls Its a folly to make credulous Americans think something that cost that much must be good..


Yes, I've seen a few pieces of different walls stuck up. I don't think we'll see $20+ billion of wall erected or several billion dollars of necessary infrastructure materialise.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to dig a massive ditch instead? No more tunnels, jumping over not an option, arguably less costly, easier to maintain too. Is it possible nobody thought of that or is it the wall-building lodge at work behind the scenes? Could only be more effective than any wall.

Ditches, moats, rivers, they all have been used as defensive tools for millennia. To prevent people from crossing over.
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The prototypes show the wall is in the process of being completed,a big beautiful wall it we be,you'll in time
Original post by zhog
Wouldn't it be cheaper to dig a massive ditch instead? No more tunnels, jumping over not an option, arguably less costly, easier to maintain too. Is it possible nobody thought of that or is it the wall-building lodge at work behind the scenes? Could only be more effective than any wall.

Ditches, moats, rivers, they all have been used as defensive tools for millennia. To prevent people from crossing over.


A large portion of illegal imimgration and external drug come through mexico via people jumping over the crude fence that is currently in the place of the wall,this wall will reduce illegal border crossings and drugs being imported.I suppose when all you watch is left wing media its hard to form contradicting veiw points
Original post by RogerOxon
It's a barrier only for simpletons. There have already been tunnels, catapults, drones, planes, boats and submarines used to smuggle people / drugs into the US. What do you about large rivers? What about people paddling around the ends?

If it gets built, it'll be the largest waste of money in history. Let's put Trump in prison to keep him 'safe'.


Not at all all of the methods you just mentioned are considerably more convoluted and hard to execute than simply crossing a unprotected border, that is what the wall is for. Try and remember the wall inst going to put an end to illegal immigration that is too difficult a task,but it will drastically reduce it.
Original post by zhog
Wouldn't it be cheaper to dig a massive ditch instead? No more tunnels, jumping over not an option, arguably less costly, easier to maintain too. Is it possible nobody thought of that or is it the wall-building lodge at work behind the scenes? Could only be more effective than any wall.

Ditches, moats, rivers, they all have been used as defensive tools for millennia. To prevent people from crossing over.


A ditch would be harder to man,
Original post by VCBCCVBN
A ditch would be harder to man,


Look, I mean a proper ditch. 800 feet wide, whatever. 400 deep. How much manning do you need for that? No tunnels or jumping over.
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Original post by Maker
Most illegal immigrants over stay their visas rather than climb over walls Its a folly to make credulous Americans think something that cost that much must be good..


Yeah, and we've long passed the peak of illegal immigration anyway. The number of illegal immigrants in the US has actually been on a slight decline for a few years now.
Original post by zhog
Look, I mean a proper ditch. 800 feet wide, whatever. 400 deep. How much manning do you need for that?


Its a interesting point you raise there,im not sure if the cost of digging a enormous ditch on the Mexican border are exceeded by simply building a wall
Original post by VCBCCVBN
Its a interesting point you raise there,im not sure if the cost of digging a enormous ditch on the Mexican border are exceeded by simply building a wall


You heard it here first, the French would have done much better to invest in one all around the perimeter than on the Maginot Line.

Public work programme, give the unemployed a shovel. it's amazing how much we can learn from the past.
Original post by VCBCCVBN
Not at all all of the methods you just mentioned are considerably more convoluted and hard to execute than simply crossing a unprotected border, that is what the wall is for. Try and remember the wall inst going to put an end to illegal immigration that is too difficult a task,but it will drastically reduce it.

Yet they've all been used, so perhaps the current border isn't that insecure.

All the wall will serve to do is to waste a huge sum of money. The money could be more effectively spent on staff, if you think that there's an issue. However, the dirty truth is that the US economy relies on illegal immigrant labour.
Original post by RogerOxon
Yet they've all been used, so perhaps the current border isn't that insecure.

All the wall will serve to do is to waste a huge sum of money. The money could be more effectively spent on staff, if you think that there's an issue. However, the dirty truth is that the US economy relies on illegal immigrant labour.


No it does not,you are mislead, do you know how much money illegals cost america,fare more that the cost of the proposed wall
https://fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers
Read it and weep

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