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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The border wall was never intended to solve anything apart from “how to stir up bigots for votes.”
Most people in this country illegally came here legally on a student or work visa and simply didn’t go back. Wall ain’t gonna fix that. And most people who come into this country do so on a plane, so unless your wall is 30,000 feet tall, it’s not gonna fix that either. And everyone knew this before Trump started bloviating.
But no one voted for Trump because they thought the host of *Celebrity Apprentice* had practical solutions to anything. They liked him because he hated the people they hated. And talking big about a wall and calling Mexicans rapists signaled that loud and clear. The tell here is that he didn’t pay any political price whatsoever with his base when almost none of the wall got built, and the sections that did were falling down in the wind or had gaps you could walk through. They didn’t care that the wall existed or worked. They just wanted to feel justified in hating those dirty furriners.
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