This person is not at all familiar with the costs of illegal immigration:https://twitter.com/_leftcat/status/1049855481529782272 …
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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Those additional costs are in the billions of dollars per year.
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If you're concerned about gov't spending there's loads of policies which are much more cost-effective and much lower-risk than building a wall or mass deportations would be.
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Also, such expansive immigration policy would necessarily involve intrusive gov't intervention into civil society, which intuitively seems like it'd be something a "principled" NRx type should be opposed to. This isn't my area of expertise tho, so idk.
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Building a wall is cheap and would save a lot of money. I don't see what the problem is.
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Limiting immigration doesn't actually require much government intrusiveness. Mass deportation would, but that's also worth it.
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