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Let's do a cost-benefit-analysis of the wall:
How much will the wall cost realistically when all is said and done? If the official price-tag right now is $20 billion, it will be more like $40 billion.
On average 1 million illegal immigrants enter the US per year. 400,000 would be stopped by a wall.
That's $100,000 per illegal immigrant stopped.
How much does an illegal immigrant contribute to the US economy and US taxes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_United_States
Nearly every dollar earned by illegal immigrants is spent immediately, and the average wage for US citizens is $10.25/hour with an average of 34 hours per week. This means that approximately 8 million US jobs are dependent upon economic activity produced by illegal immigrant activities within the US.[16][17][18]
Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.[19] In addition, they spend millions of dollars per year, which supports the US economy and helps to create new jobs. The Texas State Comptroller reported in 2006 that the 1.4 million illegal immigrants in Texas added almost $18 billion to the gross state product, and contributed $1.6 billion in state revenue, while costing the state about $1.2 billion in services used.[20]
And the GWB-administration had this experiment in IIRC Georgia, where one year they took an extra-close look whether farm-hands are illegal immigrants.
The result?
The crops rotted on the fields because no US citizen was willing to do that job for THAT little salary.
Stephen Colbert worked that job for a day in 2010 and was actually called into a congressional hearing as a witness. The gist? It's a back-breaking job for little pay and you have no rights.
