This person is not at all familiar with the costs of illegal immigration:https://twitter.com/_leftcat/status/1049855481529782272 …
Are you kidding? First of all, there are other examples that indicate that a wall would in fact work at substantially reducing illegal immigration. Instead of rehashing all the data on expenses, just see here: https://fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers …
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I made no claims about whether or not a wall would reduce immigration. You're deflecting. I questioned your assertion that a wall would significantly reduce welfare and medical spending. Is that not a fair question to ask? "Are you kidding?" is a textbook credulous response btw.
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I know you didn't make that claim, but I was adding that to anticipate your next argument about the wall costing more than it would save.
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The point is that a wall would reduce illegal immigration, and illegal immigration costs the country a substantial amount (see link). Compare cost savings to the cost of the wall.
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And yes, you should already know all that, so I do wonder if you're serious
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I'm not making the argument that the wall would cost more than it would save, I'm arguing that building a wall wouldn't significantly reduce total gov't welfare and medical spending. You're not anticipating any arguments, you're deflecting.
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Are you arguing that illegal immigrants don't cost US taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year?
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I'm arguing that building a wall won't significantly welfare and medical spending. Welfare and medical spending currently cost US taxpayers trillions of dollars a year. Are you arguing that building a wall would somehow save US tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars a year?
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Obviously we can't save the total cost of illegal immigrants by building a wall--we'd also have to have mass deportation to save over a hundred billion dollars a year. But we can save on the additional costs from new illegal immigrants by building a wall.
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