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Originally Posted by BYprodriver
Typical confusing activity with accomplishment! How basic is it to protect your borders! Anyone here not bother to lock your doors before leaving home or going to sleep at night. We need to build a wall that's up to the job!  |
The problem with such a fool-proof wall (which would surely be one of the 7 wonders of the modern world) aside from its astronomical cost, would be all the small businesses that would block it from being built since they rely heavily on a steady stream of millions of illegal migrant workers to keep their small businesses afloat. They're also the reason why these illegals have to stay illegal: once they become legal they have to pay them a minimum wage, workers comp in case of injury, ensure safe working conditions and other costs that crimp small business margins. It's a cynical arrangement. Meanwhile, keeping the current cat and mouse charade going employs millions of LE agents, keep jail contractors in business, and of course maintains the endless black market of cheap labor. Unless there is an economic disincentive to keep small business from using illegal labor, they will continue to be the lure that gets illegals to risk their lives crossing the border by the millions. Many of whom transport contraband. And really when you look at our history, there's never been an industrialized period where American business didn't use immigrant labor in large numbers. The difference now is that we no longer have a viable mechanism to manage it. Department of State statistics indicate that an unskilled worker has an approximate wait of ~90 years to obtain a work visa. They aren't going to wait that long, neither are the millions of small businesses that are always hiring them.