Trump's Wall Should Be Built

The Wall's Efficiency: 40-60% of illegal immigrants enter the United States through the Mexican border. 400, 000 illegal immigrants are apprehended at the Mexican border annualy, 260, 000 have already been apprehended this year alone (https://www. Cbp. Gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration). Even if most illegal immigrants don't come throught the Mexican border, That's not an argument against building the wall. A wall would still stop the 40-60% from coming in. Analogy: if you have cancer and a broken leg, Do you ignore the broken leg? No, You treat the broken leg first. Just because we have bigger problems doesn't mean we shouldn't solve smaller problems. You can't go through and over a wall. A border wall would have security guards and barbed wire, Which stop such things from happening. The only way to cross the wall would be under it, Through a tunnel. But that's not an argument either! We have walls around prisons, Should we remove walls from prisons because some inmates can build a tunnel under them? No! Most illegal immigrants won't enter through tunnels. Such tunnels would have to start very far from the wall and end very far from the wall, They would be very expensive, Take months at best to build, And would be discovered by the US or Mexican government. Nobody is saying that the wall would stop ALL illegal immigration, But it will stop most. Illegal immigrants commit more crimes than legal immigrants, But slower than US citizens? So what! If legal immigrants commit less crime that illegal immigrants, Shouldn't all illegal immigrants enter as legal immigrants to decrease crime? Shouldn't we build a wall so illegal immigration will drop, And crime as well? It doesn't matter if illegal immigrants commit less crime than US citizens, THEY STILL COMMIT CRIME. Same analogy as before: if you have cancer and a broken leg, Do you ignore the broken leg? A wall will decrease the amount of drugs, Period. You're right: the price of drugs will increase. And that would mean that poor people would do less drugs! Increasing the price up so much would stop people from using a product. In the US, For example, Cigarettes are taxed to make them very expensive, Which stops most people from smoking. Increasing the price of a product decreases the demand. Simple supply/demand economics. Wall Funding: Even Trump's biggest critics estimate the wall at no more than $25 billion. That is a miniscule amount. The annual US budget is 4 trillion. The US army's budget is a whopping 600 million. ICE gets almost 6 billion a year. Heck, Even NASA gets 21 billion! Compared to other government projects and organizations, A wall is almost free. Plus, Building a wall would mean the ICE budget could be significantly reduced! The funding from the wall is a more difficult issue. President Trump has proposed that we use money from the $180 billion trade deficit of Mexico. But like I said before, It doesn't matter where we get the money, The price of the wall is tiny compared to the annual budget. So even if the money came from American taxpayers, Price isn't really a problem. Illegal Immigration: Nobody should be allowed to enter the United States without the government's permission. The US isn't morally obliged to let anyone enter: not illegal immigrants, Not refugees, Not legal immigrants, Only US citizens. Illegal immigrants commit crime and increase the US crime rate. They also steal jobs from US citizens. Illegal immigrants are very poor, So employees can pay them almost nothing and fire US citizens which demand more. Eventually, Most low-level jobs will be taken over by illegal immigrants. US citizens that hold these jobs now will lose them. That doesn't happen because illegal immigrants are better workers or because they do jobs that US citizens won't do: it happens simply because illegal immigrans want less money. The facts don't agree with you. 40-60% of illegal immigration will be stopped by a border wall. Places on the Mexican border with fences have lower illegal immigration. Walls have worked everywhere: in prisons, In foreign countries, Even in your house. Building a wall wouldn't automatically solve the border crisis, But it would decrease it by a lot. A wall is also very cheap to construct. Trump's wall should be built as soon as possible, In order to decrease illegal immigration and solve the current border crisis.