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Originally Posted by Ohio
ZNP, try not to use facts or reason to communicate with certain posters. 
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It is mind boggling.
To listen to them it is some kind of crime to say that the US putting up a barrier on the border is some kind of crime. They are like the pharisees and saducees making a big stink over a gnat while swallowing the camel (by comparison this $5 billion dollar project is a gnat in the US budge).
They complain about gun violence but pretend that gang violence and gangs associated with cartels are not an issue.
They jump on the fact that "the majority of immigrants" are not criminals while ignoring that 13% of these violent crimes from gangs are not only illegal immigrants, but illegal immigrants that have crossed the border with Mexico illegally multiple times.
This claim that "this will not solve the problem" is such a slimy argument. It is like an obese person saying that cutting out pizza will not solve the problem. Maybe not, but it will help and it is a step in the right direction.
But what makes angry is not once do they make a suggestion on how the $5 billion would be better spent.
I agree that the wall is not my first choice on how to solve this problem, but on the other hand I also agree that it might be helpful and it might pay for itself by reducing the violent crime.
However, I am more than happy to provide suggestions that I know will work:
1. Spend $5 billion to eliminate all the school lunch debt. I have seen that providing breakfast and lunch to students improves attendance. Getting kids off the streets keeps them away from gangs and street crime.
2. Pay for after school programs. Right now we can only afford 1 after school tutoring session a week, many kids can't make that day, if we had more then they would pass, graduate and not fall through the cracks.
3. Require all gun owners to have insurance that would pay for any damages they inflict on others, just like car owners have to have liability insurance. This enlists a very powerful lobbyist that can stand up to the NRA and push common sense legislation. This also gives us immediate use of the most sophisticated computer network and algorithms that would monitor every purchase a gun owner makes. In addition they would offer discounts to people who provided additional access to other records that would immediately flag them if they had mental health issues, got fired, or had some extremely stressful event (wife killed by drunk driver, etc).