Trumps Wall, Illegal Aliens, Drug and Human Smuggling, High Cost in the Market, More Taxes, Cost of Fighting Terrorism and the Drug War

Open borders would not mean any Tom, Dick or Harry coming over the border, it just means the restrictions of those coming over to do business, visit relatives, as tourist would be made easier. Illegal drugs or contraband would be confiscated on the spot and letting those in. Regulate and legalize drugs, deregulate prostitution, no pimping, relax the requirements to get a visa, relax migration for agriculture work, but in the same sense it must be fair and the same to the US citizens who want to visit other countries match the laxed requirements all this done of course bilaterally.

First, the wall will not work. Texas already started building a border fence about ten years ago. It divided people from their own property across the border, it deprived people of their land through the use of eminent domain, and in the end the problem of drug and human smuggling was not solved.

Second, the wall will be expensive. The wall is estimated to cost between 12 and 15 billion dollars. You can bet it will be more than that. President Trump has claimed that if the Mexican government doesn’t pay for it, he will impose a 20 percent duty on products imported from Mexico. Who will pay this tax? Ultimately, the American consumer, as the additional costs will be passed on. This will of course hurt the poorest Americans the most. Because most shop at Target, Dollar Tree and Walmart. It would increase inflation and decrease the dollars worth which has already dropped 5 pesos since Trump took office.

Building the wall would only increase the profit in illegal human trafficking, increase the profits in the illegal drug trade and promote more gang activity in the country. It would be like prohibition in the 20's and the 30's promoted by the women and churches to fill their coffers and control society. The evilangelist.(spelling intentional)

Third, building a wall ignores the real causes of illegal border crossings into the United States. Though President Trump is right to prioritize the problem of border security, he misses the point on how it can be done effectively and at an actual financial benefit to the country rather than a huge economic drain. Border and drug trafficking would go to other methods by sea and air, there is always a way around it.

The solution to really addressing the problem of illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and the threat of cross-border terrorism is clear: remove the welfare magnet that attracts so many to cross the border illegally, stop the 25 year US war in the Middle East, and end the drug war that incentives smugglers to cross the border.

Likewise, the 40 year war on drugs has produced no benefit to the American people at a great cost. It is estimated that since President Nixon declared a war on drugs, the US has spent more than a trillion dollars to fight what is a losing battle. That is because just as with the welfare magnet, there is an enormous incentive to smuggle drugs into the United States. The money we have already spent on the drug war and the war on terrorism, could have been used in educations, taking care of the poor, the elderly, and up keep of the social security system.

We already know the effect that ending the war on drugs has on illegal smuggling: as more and more US states decriminalize marijuana for medical and recreational uses, marijuana smuggling from Mexico to the US has dropped by 50 percent from 2010.

Finally, the threat of terrorists crossing into the United States from Mexico must be taken seriously, however once again we must soberly consider why they may seek to do us harm. We have been dropping bombs on the Middle East since at least 1990. Last year President Obama dropped more than 26,000 bombs, someone is making money. Thousands of civilians have been killed in US drone attack and only produces more terrorist in a vendetta mode. The grand US plan to “remake” the Middle East has produced only misery, bloodshed, and terrorism and why? Over Oil and gas and now opium and lithium. Ending this senseless intervention will go a long way toward removing the incentive to attack the United States.

I believe it is important for the United States to have secure borders, but unfortunately President Trump’s plan to build a wall will end up costing a fortune while ignoring the real problem of why people cross the borders illegally. They will keep coming as long as those incentives remain.