If Trump would have built the wall like he promised, we wouldn't be having the surge of illegal aliens trying to cross over now. But we got used to broken promises from Trump, didn't we? We didn't need four more years of his lies and bullshit and troublemaking, so we fired him. Biden has already accomplished more in the four months he has been in office than Trump did in four years.
Originally Posted by Lapdog
Walls don't work. They can be avoided, scaled, dug under, flown over, or broken through. What works is guards, dogs, machine guns, missiles and land mines. If we're not willing to kill people trying to breach our border we're better off not making the effort to stop them but rather to track and capture after they come over. My problem wasn't the wall but rather the misallocation of resources from Border Patrol and immigration courts to Trump's Idiotic Grand Monument. (which Mexico never paid for by the way)
Obama doesn't get enough credit for slowing down unauthorized immigration. They didn't call him the deporter in chief for nothing. Trump's dismantlement of our immigration courts and procedures means that it will be some time before we can get the immigration machine back into working order. The best thing for the long run will be to fully staff our immigration courts, the border patrol, and our temporary holding facilities to better handle the seasonal surges of migrants. Because just telling them not to come doesn't work and separating them from their kids doesn't work either. It's just cruel and inhumane.
See the article.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/arti...r-chief-or-not
Carefully calibrated revisions to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement priorities and practices achieved two goals: Increasing penalties against unauthorized border crossers by putting far larger shares into formal removal proceedings rather than voluntarily returning them across the border, as had been longstanding practice; and making noncitizens with criminal records the top enforcement target.
