Trump's wall: a fitting monument for an unfit leader
John Paul Brammer
Friday 27 January 2017 10.21 EST
... Trump can’t sign a wall into existence with an executive order. He still needs Congress to approve the .. federal funds. Environmental hurdles like deserts and mountains must also be overcome. Ranchers and private landowners probably won’t roll over and just give the government their land without putting up a fight in court.
... if these problems magically went away, experts say that such an undertaking could take up to 16 years. We as a country swang from Barack Obama to Tweety McTangerine in half that time. Assuming we survive that long, it seems unlikely that Trump’s vanity project will have the time it needs to be built ...
... look at the other things he’s “built”. Trump University, beset by lawsuits for allegedly defrauding students – he has always denied the claims – and operating without a license. His casinos in Atlantic City went bankrupt, while he boasted that he “made a lot of money” from the project. He makes big promises. He stiffs people. He comes out on top. That’s his game.
... We already have 700 miles of border wall. More people are returning to Mexico than are crossing the border into the United States. It has been shown that immigrants actually help our economy, not hurt it, and benefit native-born workers. Undocumented immigrants do pay taxes and social security and are far less likely to commit crimes than native-born citizens. Finally, increased border security has not curbed the influx of undocumented people ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/27/donald-trump-border-wall-mexico
