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Originally Posted by Anteater
Being at a "record low" doesn't mean it isn't a problem. He's going to have to bring some some compelling information outside of the mainstream narrative on that subject to justify an emergency. We have all kinds of problems: there's no precedent to calling something an emergency just to wiggle around a stalemate.
One angle he has could be in relations to taxes. Illegal immigrants pay in around 12 billion a year in various ways, but get paid out nearly double that. But the wall doesn't do anything about that (seeing as they're already here), so his only argument is one of deterrence.
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^ Well, I'm happy to be able to agree with most of that, Anteater. I can see that there is a problem, a constant irritant at the southern border. As I read once, it's the longest land border where the First World and the Third World butt up against each other, so there are bound to be various tricky issues arising. But tricky issues need carefully nuanced solutions. Trump is like a surgeon walking into an operating theatre with a sledge hammer, instead of a scalpel.
