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How has Trump done at the half-way point in his presidency?

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The argument the Dems want the flow of illegal entries to continue is completely credible. Proof of this is the fact thst they want a path to citizenship for those that are here before discussing ways to stop more emtering. My guess is that their path to citizenship would be little more than filling out a form. The leaders of the Dem. party are concerned with votes and money. They dont care about immigtants any mote or less than Republicans do
Badly... he should have extended the USA down to the Panama canal. Would have made that wall much cheaper.
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Original post by Jebedee
Luckily the GDP of the USA is over 130x bigger than Hungary. So its not terribly more ambitious in terms of scale.

The Hungarian border wall is 325 miles long. The US-Mexico border is 3.15 million miles long. So if we're just scaling up numbers, Trump's wall is going to be 9,677 times longer than the one in Hungary. Also if we scale the cost, Hungary's project cost them €800 million ($916m), so Trump's wall would cost something ridiculous like 8 trillion dollars. And that's for a wire fence border, not even a proper wall.
Original post by Vinny C
Badly... he should have extended the USA down to the Panama canal. Would have made that wall much cheaper.

They used to own Panama - worse decision they ever made, setting its people free. Far better to colonise, tyranise and oppress the poor of Latin America, like they have done for the last 150 years. Much more efficient and also good for the rich, so win-win.
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I don't like Trump and I am not even liberal. That big mac eating orange baboon. He has nothing about him respect worthy. Now Putin that is a real Leader. Old school. I always remember video from Russia. Putin walks into a billionaires factory, billionaire got caught up to no good. Putin gave him a pen made the guy sign over his company to the Russian state and then the police escorted Mr Billionaire away. But Putin was not finshed! he called him back. And said "Give me back my pen!"
Original post by Dez
The Hungarian border wall is 325 miles long. The US-Mexico border is 3.15 million miles long. So if we're just scaling up numbers, Trump's wall is going to be 9,677 times longer than the one in Hungary. Also if we scale the cost, Hungary's project cost them €800 million ($916m), so Trump's wall would cost something ridiculous like 8 trillion dollars. And that's for a wire fence border, not even a proper wall.

It's already been priced at 5bn. A fraction of the cost of illegal immigration every year.
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Original post by Jebedee
It's already been priced at 5bn. A fraction of the cost of illegal immigration every year.

Even the most conservative estimates say it'll cost at least 8 billion. And tell me, when has a US government constructon project ever come in on time and within budget?
Original post by Dez
Even the most conservative estimates say it'll cost at least 8 billion. And tell me, when has a US government constructon project ever come in on time and within budget?

I believe the rebuilding of the White House by slaves after the British shelled it was done within budget. Then again, it didn't cost so much as with actual paid people.
Original post by Jebedee
It's already been priced at 5bn. A fraction of the cost of illegal immigration every year.

It is embarrassing how badly informed you are.
Original post by Fullofsurprises
They used to own Panama - worse decision they ever made, setting its people free. Far better to colonise, tyranise and oppress the poor of Latin America, like they have done for the last 150 years. Much more efficient and also good for the rich, so win-win.


Exactly... just look at the poor Latin Americans since left to their own devices. Most of them want to be in the USA anyway so it would even be a democratic move.
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Original post by BlueIndigoViolet
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Original post by Palmyra
It is embarrassing how badly informed you are.

Unless you have figures to correct me with, you're just chatting steam.
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(I think) N is just windng you up, mate. He likes to rattle the cages!
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They argue theoretically that border enforcement emerged as a policy response to a moral panic about the perceived threat of Latino immigration to the United States propounded by self-interested bureaucrats, politicians, and pundits who sought to mobilize political and material resources for their own benefit.


Complete b******s, straight from the stratosphere. Who cares what this 'academic' research yields, it has nothing to do with the real world.
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How about you just posting another example of how 'walls don't work'? I've seen a couple so far and they're both a bit on the intelligence-insulting side, have you got one handy? I was actually doing my research when reading and commenting on your academic report that says walls don't work because people struggle to go back to their countries, same thing with this latest offering where it is academically suggested that border enforcement is racist. No good.
What did you put it at the top for, I did look and lost the will to carry on. You pick the best of the bunch if you like.

ps, just looked up the bottom one, it only says there are more visa overstayers. We've done that, waste of time.
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I'm really sorry but that wasn't me, last I remember is inviting you to tell us what you'd do about illegal immigration and then you went out without a link.

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