I do not want Donald Trump to be President, but he makes great
press because of his mouth. As such, I am going to dissect and critique
his immigration plan. It will be seven parts, so that is seven days of
Trump. May it begin!
The Wall: Trump wants to build the wall
between Mexico and the United States. Something that can potentially work
if it resembles the Berlin wall. This means a double wall/fence with
patrols going in-between the two barriers. Basically it is designed to
make it very hard to cross the border by slowing the illegal entrants down long
enough for a patrol show up to make an arrest. However, he wants Mexico
to pay for it. Short of annexing Mexico, the only thing that Trump could
do if he became President would be to kick Mexico out of the North American
Free Trade Agreement and thus tax goods coming in from Mexico. Trump did
not say we would partner with Mexico, so this change in the status quo for
trade relations and thus would create economic issues.
More ICE officers: ICE officers are the men and women
who handle illegal migrants that make it through the border. However,
according to Trump's stats, there are only 5,000 such officers that have to
deal with well over eleven million illegal migrants. Trump wants to use
money that comes from tax cheats and others who have defrauded the government
to pay for their expansion. Those people who are considered
"defrauders" are illegals who obtained tax identification numbers and
claimed tax credits (this is apparently legal to do in the United States).
As such, no more tax credits would go to illegal migrants who were
allowed to stay in the United States. This we all can agree with as with
respect to increasing law enforcement and ending tax credits.
Conclusion: These two parts of his plan are the
least controversial. And thus are supportable by most Americans on both
sides of the political aisle. The only real issue here though is who is
going to pay for the wall, and I think it is us the tax payers.
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