How does the border wall solve the alleged illegal immigration problem when they could just hop on a flight and ‘miss’ their return flight home?

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EDIT: Learned that many countries are required to have a Visa before entering. They cannot travel to the US, even for tourism, without it. As a privileged American citizen, I naively thought anyone can travel anywhere for tourism purposes with just a passport.

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It doesn’t.

Objectively many anti-immigration hard liners weren’t concerned about the physical wall for this reason until trump came along.

But trumps campaign to build the wall helped get him elected so when an anti-immigrant politician wins an election you hitch your wagon to them.

So that created a tension where trump literally wanted a new wall despite it not being an effective tool. But you go along with it because he also was in favor of a bunch of other anti-immigration measures.