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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.
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Saying that it's all about immigration vs xenophobia, and nothing else, is gross oversimplification.
For starters, immigrants may take up jobs that native-born citizens also need, but there's also the issue of outsourcing. Corporations will exploit low-wage labor, and will leave areas where workers will not accept such low salaries. Look at what outsourcing has done to places like Detroit; the jobs leave, the money leaves, and infrastructure and quality of life crumbles. Yet the United States is still a lucrative market to sell goods in, so these corporations, such as car manufacturers, still sell foreign-manufactured cars in the very places they left. They make more money because they pay the foreign workers less, while the common man and woman suffer.
This is no good for us, so Trump's solution is implementing a 35% tariff on American corporations who think they can outsource and get off easy by selling these foreign-made goods. At the same time, Trump plans to reduce the business tax to 15%, giving these corporations an even better reason to come back (as well as more money to give workers good salaries). You can already see it with various companies abandoning plans to build factories in Mexico, and investing in plants in Michigan.
Ironically, Obama said this was impossible. He asked Trump what kind of magic wand he had to bring those jobs back. Well, looks like Trump's a wizard.
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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.
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Actually, walls remain a very practical means of controlling movement of people. For instance, look at the results of Hungary's border wall.
And if you question whether illegal aliens bring violent crime (which, in turn, a barrier to migration would indirectly stop), look no further than Israel's border fence.
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i thought it was all memes why is he doing this
see i don't really care about trump, hating him is missing the forest for the trees. Why is he in power doing this tho? Is this a flaw of the presidential system? Of first past the post voting? Is this policy something that is widely supported in the USA?
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It's mostly because it was a campaign promise.
I'm guessing public opinion is about 50-50 right now.