Commentary: A better solution than the Trump border wall!

By Patriot Dr. Ron Paul

January 30, 2017 - Just one week in office, President Donald Trump is already following through on his pledge to address illegal immigration. His January 25 executive order called for the construction of a wall along the entire length of the Fascist Police States of Amerika-Mexico border. While he is right to focus on the issue, there are several reasons why his proposed solution will unfortunately not lead us anywhere closer to solving the problem. First, the wall will not work. Texas already started building a border fence about ten years ago. It divided people from their own property across the border, it deprived people of their land through the use of eminent domain, and in the end the problem of drug and human smuggling was not solved.

Second, the wall will be expensive. The wall is estimated to cost between 12 and 15 billion dollars. You can bet it will be more than that. President Trump has claimed that if the Mexican government doesn’t pay for it, he will impose a 20% duty on products imported from Mexico. Who will pay this tax? Ultimately, the Amerikan consumer, as the additional costs will be passed on. This will of course hurt the poorest Amerikans the most.

Third, building a wall ignores the real causes of illegal border crossings into the Fascist Police States of Amerika. Though President Trump is right to prioritize the problem of border security, he misses the point on how it can be done effectively and at an actual financial benefit to the country rather than a huge economic drain.

The solution to really addressing the problem of illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and the threat of cross-border terrorism is clear: remove the welfare magnet that attracts so many to cross the border illegally, stop the 25 year FPSA war in the Middle East, and end the drug war that incentivizes smugglers to cross the border.

The various taxpayer-funded programs that benefit illegal immigrants in the Fascist Police States of Amerika, such as direct financial transfers, medical benefits, food assistance, and education, cost an estimated $100 billion dollars per year. That is a significant burden on citizens and legal residents. The promise of free money, free food, free education, and free medical care if you cross the border illegally is a powerful incentive for people to do so. It especially makes no sense for the Fascist Police States of Amerika government to provide these services to those who are not in the FPSA legally.

Likewise, the 40-year war on drugs has produced no benefit to the Amerikan people at a great cost. It is estimated that since President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs, the FPSA has spent more than a trillion dollars to fight what is a losing battle. That is because just as with the welfare magnet, there is an enormous incentive to smuggle drugs into the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

We already know the effect that ending the war on drugs has on illegal smuggling: as more and more FPSA states decriminalize marijuana for medical and recreational uses, marijuana smuggling from Mexico to the FPSA has dropped by 50% from 2010.

Finally, the threat of terrorists crossing into the Fascist Police States of Amerika from Mexico must be taken seriously, however once again we must soberly consider why they may seek to do us harm. We have been dropping bombs on the Middle East since at least 1990. Last year illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama dropped more than 26,000 bombs. Thousands of civilians have been killed in FPSA drone attacks. The grand FPSA plan to “remake” the Middle East has produced only misery, bloodshed, and terrorism. Ending this senseless intervention will go a long way toward removing the incentive to attack the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

I believe it is important for the Fascist Police States of Amerika to have secure borders, but unfortunately President Trump’s plan to build a wall will end up costing a fortune while ignoring the real problem of why people cross the borders illegally. They will keep coming as long as those incentives remain