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It may seem that way if President Nieto is unwilling to negotiate, but the reality is that we hold all the cards. One thing to remember is that we don't need Mexico to literally pay us, it's just that Trump promised that Mexico will "pay for" the wall. For instance, Trump just recently asked Congress to approve a 20% import tax on Mexican goods. Other potential solutions include driving up the price of visas and forbidding Mexican immigrants from sending money back home to their families (amounts to $24 billion a year).
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The amount of times you had to say the word "Mexican" is the real problem here though - his whole campaign is just one giant distraction.... I have yet to see any credible evidence anywhere that the most important thing to do for our economy is to crack down on immigration. People are naturally inclined to blame others when things are bad, and - for any nation - find it easier to blame foreigners. That's what he's preying on - radical, ignorant xenophobia, and it's only going to be encouraged with this kind of behavior.... We may be able to afford a 24-26 billion dollar wall in 10 years, but the real question is, do we really need this? Will it actually make a difference, or will we just be wasting money that could be better spent somewhere else? Even some conservative values would potentially have a higher value. That's money we could spend on police, prisons or the military.
The biggest defense I've ever really heard about building the wall was that it'd create "like tons of new jobs, maaaaaan :u" But honestly, even if it really takes 10 years that still may not matter if it comes out of all of our pockets. You could say the same for any hard labor - the president could commission millions of people to recreate the Egyptian pyramids but 3x larger in Washington right now, and that'd give a lot of people jobs. But really, what would that accomplish? It'd just make us look cooler, maybe at the most increase tourism a little. To me, I foresee pretty much the same in this whole wall business. It's just gonna sit there and make us look stronger - it's the equivalent of us funding a dick-measuring contest.
Is a single dick worth 25 billion?
