How many terrorists and illegal invaders (rapists, murderers, gang bangers) are acceptable to Democrats?
You can easily ask Republicans exactly the same question because Trump's "solution" is no solution to illegal immigration or asylum seekers and the whole rapists, murderers and gang bangers thing as it relate to the border is a red herring.
It is not an issue of "fearing" the Wall. It is an issue of pouring money down a rathole without solving any of the issues Trump points to.
What we need is:
- soundly considered border security which will and should include physical barriers integrated into a complete system
- Bollard Fencing of differing heights, differing lengths and in the right places is very likely the best physical barrier piece to a complete border security puzzle
- while Bollard Fencing should be effective as a physical barrier it does not offer the same sort of geopolitical optics that only the autocrat loving Donald prefers but that every American should detest
- 1,100 new miles of any physical barrier atop what we already have is likely unrealistic and ineffective and nobody knows if Donald Duck thinks 1,100 miles is enough. In fact Donald does not know. He will toss 1,100 miles of something out there eventually and wait to see if his base cheers or not
If we really care about illegal immigration and asylum seekers and drug addiction we need to spread money around between:
- sensible aid to Central American countries aimed at keeping those people home
- soundly considered border security and an integrated system of technology, physical barriers and personnel
- a better system of processing for asylum seekers including about 400 more judges (not the thousands Donald Duck blathers on about)
- dealing with drug addition at the demand side of the equation. The bulk of drugs entering this country by far comes through ports of entry. Wall does nothing.
The gang bangers, rapists and murders are already here...many of them tonally lighter in color than Central American immigrants and asylum seekers who are for the most part less afraid of the US government than they were of the corrupt governments they left but are none the less scared to death of the US government and as such living in the shadows afraid to expose themselves to possible legal problems.
Once the Right stops yammering about nonsense we might have something to talk about.
