Texas faces a devastating flood. Perhaps building a moat would be cheaper than building a wall.
The point of this post is that neither a wall nor a moat will prevent illegal immigration.
According to a May 2017 report from the Department of Homeland Security, more than 50 million foreigners entered the U.S. legally in 2016 by flying, driving or arriving by ship at a port.
Of that immense group, 1.47 percent— or 739,478 people— stayed in the country past the length of their visa. Immigration law refers to that not as illegal immigration but as “accruing an unlawful presence.” But practically speaking, it's no different than walking across a desert opening (called, by statute, "making an unlawful entry").
I just checked on a one-way fare on Southwest from Mexico City to Dallas for September 20, 2017: $162. Pretty cheap. And it's cheaper and safer than paying "mules" to transport people in the back of a packed trailer.
Unless the U.S. expands its travel ban to Mexico and other nations where people of color live (and are therefore objectionable to an administration that wants to promote a white nation), the so-called problem of “illegal immigration” will not be stopped. It will simply occur in the quiet spaces of our airports.
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