Debate: The Practicality of "The Wall"
Side: No, because...

Provide numbers please. 1/2 of 10 is 5. 1/ of 60 million is 30 million.1/2 could be a huge number. 1/2 of a ficticious number or an inferred number is spin. Its ONLY half, well um, 1/2 of what exactly.Then multiply it by years it has happened, plus the years you are willing to have more of it.Well, there's about 11 million illegal immigrants every year, with over half entering with legal visas. Let's be generous and just call it 50%, however, for simplicity. That's 5.5 million people still entering the United States (remember, that's the number that are ALREADY HERE, not the number that are coming here every year).Then lets discuss that number.And then, calculate the cost of economic impact. Unemployment, Government payouts and benefitss, and all the other costs that we incurr. And multiply that by years , past and future years of continuance.Yes, but you also have to address the positive economic impact. The Department of Labor estimates between 55-70% of agricultural workers are undoccumented, and the Social Security Trust Fund estimates that the undoccumented contribute about 10% of the total SSI income. That's all on top of many state taxes (sales tax, local utilities, often property tax, etc) that they pay without full access to social welfare services. After all, the Congressional Budget Office has this to say: "“Over the past two decades, most efforts to estimate the fiscal impact of immigration in the United States have concluded that, in aggregate and over the long term, tax revenues of all types generated by immigrants—both legal and unauthorized—exceed the cost of the services they use.” So if you want to examine the numbers, you've already got arguments against you.And you sound as bad as Trump with throwing the number of cost since you are at tens-sss of billions.He said 5 billion to 12 billion.And it hasn't been calculated yet.First, I love how Trump convinced everyone the wall would be great by starting at 4 billion, then eventually bringing it up to 12 billion.As for the REAL cost: 167,272,000 cubic yards of cast-in-place concrete at $93/cubic yard = $15,556,296,0001,030,000 segments of 10’ pre-cast panels at $17/panel = $17,510,0002,500,000 tons of steel rebar at $600/ton = $1,500,000,000So that's 17 billion for materials ALONE. When you add labor costs for construct and manning, and then maintenance...well, I'm sure you see what I mean.And then you have the risk of terrorism, and that cost in lives and damages. And the increase in crime, since criminals do not come legally, they come illegally!And the weight of that is also huge.Terrorism is a minor concern since few (if any) terrorists have been coming through the southern border, most likely because there are so many easier ways of getting here. As for crime, there are practical, effective means of countering the crime, considering the Cartel based crime is all related around the drug and gun exchange. I've previously mentioned to you ways that would actually help solve that problem.Illegal immigration is a HUGE issue.And one that absolutely should be a priority of our Government and of Our People!!I agree, just in an ENTIRELY different direciton.Illegal immigration cost us Billions every year!Taxpayers (2013)Yes, and they also benefit us by billions every year, something your link left out.I recommend you look at the direct numbers from the CBO, rather than getting them from a biased think-tank that isn't even giving you all the relevant information.