This Is Why Trump's Wall Will Never Work

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The United States government is currently in a shutdown because President Donald Trump wants to build a wall — a “big, beautiful wall” along the United States’ border with Mexico. But a viral video posted by Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) illustrates exactly why Trump’s beloved wall is completely unfeasible.

First of all, if you’re going to build a wall along the Mexican border, that means building it alongside the Rio Grande, America’s fourth longest river which, as Think Progress points out, has been flooding more frequently and with increasing severity. So if the government can’t build the wall right along the river, that would mean it would have to use eminent domain to seize land from Americans who currently own land where Trump wants to put the wall. As an article in the libertarian publication Reason noted, most of the land along the border is owned by private citizens, Native American tribes, and the state of Texas.

Furthermore, O’Rourke’s video points out, building a wall would create hundreds of thousands of acres of a “no man’s land” between the river and the wall. It would also destroy important wildlife corridors and federally-preserved lands.

Link to tweet

The video also mentions that since 2007, most undocumented immigration is occurring because people are overstaying their visas, not because they are crossing the border illegally. Therefore, a wall would do little to deter this type of immigration.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/beto-orourke-trump-wall-773922/

[True Dough]

1. That's some damn straight common sense right there

To bad the currently POTUS lacks it entirely.

[Drahthaardogs]

2. It would also cut off access to the river

For livestock and irrigation, thus rendering those agricultural lands nonproductive. Emminent domain would have to be declared on the whole property.

Even more interesting, some landowners have been selling a square foot of land at a time along the projected wall path thus forcing the government to have to declare emminent domain on thousands of property per mile just to bugger it up if it comes down to this.

[Gothmog]

3. This is a great video by Beto