Donut section wrote:Jebslund wrote:
Visas, but yes. Which is why the wall is one of the dumbest wastes of money ever proposed.
As to building a moat, we'd probably spend less money paying illegal immigrants to go home than we would on a moat, so why not just give them an education, a path to citizenship if they keep their noses clean, and actually do something productive with that money. Like actually pay teachers. Or send kids like this to counseling where they can work out their issues and such.
The point is for them to pay their own deportation costs.
Enforcement still costs money immigrants, especially illegal ones, don't usually have, even if you try to force them to pay for the trip. Part of the reason the ones that sneak over here, as opposed to simply overstaying their visas (as the majority do), is because they don't have the money to do so legally, and, even those that did, but didn't have the time, often have to leave what they had behind and find work here under the table for poverty wages given by employers unscrupulous enough to use them as a cost-cutting measure. I'd rather see the money put toward doing some good instead of rabidly going after anyone who isn't white (because whites rarely, if ever, get asked for their papers) to find people who are here illegally.
Side note: I did not omit a 'for' in the comment you replied to. I meant literally giving illegal immigrants money to get them to go home.






