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jmowreader

(50,585 posts)

8. One huge problem with Trump's wall

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2018, 12:53 PM

Dec 2018

...is all the rich people who employ undocumented workers, including the man who is trying to get the wall put up in the first place.

Also consider: you could set up a refrigerated trailer to haul people pretty easily. Unless they plan to open every trailer at the border, the wall is no real impediment to illegal immigration. It will stop people walking over.

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One small problem with Trump's wall. [View all] Botany Dec 2018 OP

The ones who come by plane are generally not from Mexico and Central America oberliner Dec 2018 #1

But some do come from Mexico and Central America by plane. Botany Dec 2018 #2

True oberliner Dec 2018 #3

The majority of people who are undocumented came in by legal means (student, tourist, or work visas) FSogol Dec 2018 #4

I have heard of landscape companies and restaurants that have needed workers flying them in and ... Botany Dec 2018 #6

We're going to need a taller wall. Cuthbert Allgood Dec 2018 #5

Silly Rabbit....that's what "Space Force" is for!!! Moostache Dec 2018 #7

One huge problem with Trump's wall jmowreader Dec 2018 #8

and don't forget this... lapfog_1 Dec 2018 #9

Political theatre! Wellstone ruled Dec 2018 #10

...and another problem Algernon Moncrieff Dec 2018 #11

the ones who can afford to fly here, he doesn't hate quite as much. unblock Dec 2018 #12

Hoax. Smuggling Cubans on Air Force One. keithbvadu2 Dec 2018 #13