Trump’s wall is ‘anachronistic,’ research shows

[KingOrfeo]

Trump’s wall is ‘anachronistic,’ research shows.

President Donald Trump’s border wall was facing major hurdles before the federal government could ever begin its construction. The project was expected to cost upwards of $20 billion, Mexico has refused to pay for it and the White House only located $20 million in federal funding, according to leaked Department of Homeland Security documents.

But even if the new administration was able to allocate the resources necessary to fund Trump’s massive campaign promise – the president requested funding for the border wall in his Congressional budget proposal – it would arrive at a time when the U.S. was preparing for a "low immigration future," according to a new University of California, San Diego, report published Thursday.

The latest research showed a decrease in migration from Latin America to the U.S., making Trump's "big, beautiful wall" an ineffective, "anachronistic" proposal, the authors noted.

"The dilemma facing the United States is not so much how to arrest massive increases in the supply of foreign labor, but rather how to prepare for a low immigration future," Gordon Hanson, Chen Liu and Craig McIntosh, the authors behind the research, wrote in a paper presented Thursday at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, D.C. "The future immigration of young low-skilled labor looks set to decline rapidly, whether or not more-draconian policies to control U.S. immigration are implemented."

Demographic trends across Latin America show a sharp decline in immigration to the U.S. in recent years. The average age of the U.S. immigrant population has steadily risen as young, immigrant workers with no more than 12 years of education fell nearly 15 percent from 2000 to 2015, according to the research.

Meanwhile, multiple Customs and Border Protection officers, local law officials and immigration experts alike told International Business Times the projected border wall would do little to prevent illegal immigration over the southern border. It was unrealistic in many regions where a wall simply can’t be built, including waterways and dangerous rocky terrain, they added.

 

[Rightguide]

Research my ass.. Where we have effective double fence systems in place border crossers are chased into other areas that don't. That's what real research shows.

 

[Jamiegeo]

The people in charge of approving 'Research' funding/grants over there have obviously been sniffing glue and buzzing gas.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Research my ass.. Where we have effective double fence systems in place border crossers are chased into other areas that don't. That's what real research shows.

That's what PIDOOMA shows. But the main point of the article is that we won't have to worry about border crossers very much, because fewer and fewer Latinos will want to come here.

 

[Vetteman]

Research my ass..

Okay.

You really like talking about guys' asses.

 

[OldJourno]

Any chance illegal immigration is slowing because unwelcome imports don't want to be arrested and exported?
These people aren't stupid. They know they are not welcome. Many are fleeing. Some, we're told, are no longer getting taxpayer supported benefits they had no right to. Before you piss and moan about that, let me point out they are taking a scarce asset for our needy and making it more scarce.

Now, with a fence here's what you get the next time an asswipe like Obama gets in office and basically calls for illegals to be legalized. If said asswipe cuts a hole in the fence, or allows it to be cut, that will be news.
Without the fence, it's that much harder to get to the bottom of what's going on at the border.

 

[Christobal]

I think the cheapest way to curb illegal aliens is huge penalties and jail for the people that hire them. The dirty little secret is America likes cheap labor that have no rights.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Anyone who wants to spend day after day after day telling us how walls never solves problem is clearly not listening to the Israelis...



Morons.

 

[Christobal]

Anyone who wants to spend day after day after day telling us how walls never solves problem is clearly not listening to the Israelis...



Morons.

What are you stupid? There are no fences or barriers or machine gunned armed people around the White House. If the White House doesn't need them why should anyone else?

Sarcasm.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Any chance illegal immigration is slowing because unwelcome imports don't want to be arrested and exported?

No, it seems to be because of demographic trends in Latin America.

Many are fleeing. Some, we're told, are no longer getting taxpayer supported benefits they had no right to. Before you piss and moan about that, let me point out they are taking a scarce asset for our needy and making it more scarce.

No, they're not; they're taxpayers.

 

[Rightguide]

That's what PIDOOMA shows. But the main point of the article is that we won't have to worry about border crossers very much, because fewer and fewer Latinos will want to come here.

We've heard that bullshit in the past. Build the wall, a military tiered system, like they have down in San Diego, and illegal crossings will be minimized. We need to prosecute employers who knowingly hire illegals as well.

 

[JohnnySavage]

We've heard that bullshit in the past. Build the wall, a military tiered system, like they have down in San Diego, and illegal crossings will be minimized. We need to prosecute employers who knowingly hire illegals as well.

Agreed, but Donald Hadrian would look terrible in stripes.

 

[Rightguide]

Agreed, but Donald Hadrian would look terrible in stripes.

Yep, if he did so after the law was changed.

 

[KingOrfeo]

It's a solution to a non-problem.

 

[Rightguide]

It's a solution to a non-problem.

Fantasy....again.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Fantasy....again.

Latino immigrants are not bad for America.

 

[RobDownSouth]

It's a solution to a non-problem.

But it makes the Trump Demographic (old white men who reflexively shit their pants when they hear someone speaking Spanish) feel "safer".

 

[Rightguide]

Latino immigrants are not bad for America.

So make them come here legally and respect our laws.

 

[KingOrfeo]

So make them come here legally and respect our laws.

That's not as easy as it sounds. The limits on the numbers of legal immigrants are set too low. Would raising them be unobjectionable to you?

 

[HisArpy]

That's what PIDOOMA shows. But the main point of the article is that we won't have to worry about border crossers very much, because fewer and fewer Latinos will want to come here.

Good. Building a fence WHILE the neighbors' dogs are still shitting in your yard is stupid.

That's not as easy as it sounds. The limits on the numbers of legal immigrants are set too low. Would raising them be unobjectionable to you?

I agree with doing this. We need a new visa system where migrant labor can come here and work without all the special hoops they have to go through now. And LEGAL permanent immigration numbers should be increased to levels that are sustainable so that the immigrants can successfully integrate with our society. Even so, not everyone who wants to come here will get in.