Banana Bread wrote:
I personally believe there should be no wall. I'm sure there are many good people trying to escape poverty and harmful people and develop a new better life for themselves. If anyone bad crosses the border there is a thing called jail. They can just be put there. This country has more money then brains. It is such a waste of resources when we could be building rockets to explore space and the bottom of the oceans. These are more important issues then some arbitrary line across a piece of land which we call a border
Wow this is so dumb I am not sure you are trolling or not. But I will pretend you are serious.
There are many good people that want to come here to escape poverty and harmful people? You mean like most of the freaking world! If about 33% of the world doesn't have a working toilet, then yes, I am sure all 2.4 BILLION of them would like to come to the US or other western countries. What a STUPID thought to think the US is a capable of handling open borders!
But let's focus on the bad people who come here illegally. You know, the ones you want to just catch. The U.S. population is around 328 million. It’s estimated that about 11 million — or one in 30 — are illegal immigrants. Yet criminal aliens account for more than one in five federal prison inmates. Even assuming a pretty radical margin of error for the sake of argument, that would still mean illegal immigrants are drastically over-represented among the criminal population.
There were more than 730,000 criminal aliens in U.S. or state prisons and local jails during the period measured. They accounted for 4.9 million arrests for 7.5 million offenses. (The numbers, according to the GAO: 197,000 criminal aliens in federal prisons, arrested 1.4 million times for 2 million offenses, between 2011 and 2016; 533,000 in state or local facilities between 2010 and 2015, representing 3.5 million arrests for 5.5 million offenses.)
The arrests include allegations of more than 1 million drug crimes, a half-million assaults, 133,800 sex offenses and 24,200 kidnappings. Even more serious, the imprisoned illegal immigrants, over a five-year period, had been arrested for 33,300 homicide-related offenses and 1,500 terrorism-related crimes.
In terms of cost, federal taxpayers shelled out more than $15 billion during the period studied — or $2.5 billion a year — to keep criminal aliens behind bars in federal, state and local facilities.
Many are repeat offenders. Of about 146,500 criminal aliens who finished a federal prison term, about one in six — around 24,800 — already had been imprisoned again at least once.
So I am glad you want to continue to spend my hard earned tax dollars to "jail" then, when guess what genius, how about you put up a freaking wall and stop all of the needless crime and billions of dollars we have to spend to "jail" them.
The same reason why you lock your door or have a guard at the bank is why you make sure you know who the F is let in the country.
And that is not all of the money they waste by sending their kids to school here on my tax dollars, countless welfare programs etc.
There is a freaking immigration department in EVERY country in the world for a freaking reason.
Freaking IDIOT!