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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Replying to @HbdNrx
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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Replying to @_leftcat
Are you arguing that illegal immigrants don't cost US taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year?
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Replying to @HbdNrx
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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Replying to @_leftcat
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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Replying to @HbdNrx
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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Replying to @_leftcat
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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