Do you think a wall on the border with Mexico can stop the immigrants?

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Will the wall be effective against illegal immigrants?

  1. Yes, the wall will be largely effective

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  2. It will only have a small effect not worth the cost

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  3. No, it will be a monumental failure

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  1. JFKI

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    #341 JFKI, Mar 4, 2017
    If I could I wouldn't have created a single one.... Oh wait, I didn't.
     
  2. dhjohns

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    #342 dhjohns, Mar 4, 2017
    Exactly. The U.S. creates undocumented immigrants. If you want legal immigrants, then have legal immigration. I am not talking about what we have now. We have a stupid policy. We let in a few hundred or thousand, when we need millions. It is unethical. Also remember our constitution applies to all. No one is illegal until found illegal in a court of law.
     
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  3. Michaela Joy

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  4. Joe C

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    #344 Joe C, Mar 4, 2017
    Mork was an illegal alien too
     
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  5. Michaela Joy

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    #345 Michaela Joy, Mar 4, 2017
    That's what makes it so funny... :laie:

    And not off topic. :D
     
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  6. Joe C

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    #346 Joe C, Mar 4, 2017
    That goes to prove my theory that dhjohns is really a martian
     
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    #347 JFKI, Mar 4, 2017
    Silly me... I thought she was from... :confused: :g: What is that one between Jupiter and Neptune ?
     
  8. Michaela Joy

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    #348 Michaela Joy, Mar 4, 2017

    Uhhh...Nibiru?

    :eekout:
     
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    #349 dhjohns, Mar 4, 2017
    Could be, but I am actually a real, live American!
     
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  10. Joe C

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    #350 Joe C, Mar 4, 2017
    I doubt it, most likely an illegal alien
     
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    #351 dhjohns, Mar 4, 2017
    Legal until proven guilty in a court of law.
     
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  12. JFKI

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    #352 JFKI, Mar 5, 2017
    'splains a LOT!
     
  13. gorski

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    #353 gorski, Mar 5, 2017
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    #354 Joe C, Mar 5, 2017
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    Obviously that didn't work in the way they predicted. The media gave Hillary the election and was shaken when Trump actually won. So much surprised that the left wing liberals had a massive temper tantrum over it, and trashed the city
     
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    #355 bloodstone, Mar 5, 2017
    considering that 80% of migrants made their way over in a plane, probably not. also, there will always be boarder guards willing to take money to look the other way.

    the wall also wont be built before trumps out of office again soooo
     
  16. Katzenfreund

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    #356 Katzenfreund, Mar 5, 2017 (OP)
    By coincidence, yesterday I heard on the Netherlands Sat TV that protectionism is known to hit badly the low income people with high proportion of their budget being for essentials, whose prices increase drastically. The impact is estimated at 61%.

    Of course, that referred to goods rather than people (immigrants), but shows again that countries allowing free trade aren’t doing others a favor, only to their own people.
     
  17. Michaela Joy

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    #357 Michaela Joy, Mar 5, 2017
    We Americans have heard stories of how the former Soviet Union had to allow a black market to exist in order for the people to be able to get western goods. So what you say makes a lot of sense.

    Free trade allows us all to enjoy products that may not otherwise be available in our respective countries. It's a good thing, but, as we all can see it can be used as a weapon against other countries. We manipulate their economy by imposing tariffs on exported goods. And they do the same.
     
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    #358 gorski, Mar 6, 2017
    https://www.thenation.com/article/who-belongs-in-america/

     
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    #359 dhjohns, Mar 6, 2017
    Exactamundo!
     
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