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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Thu Jan 17, 2019, 03:04 PM Jan 2019

The absolutely simplest argument why the US doesn't need a wall:

If the US needed a wall, Trump would have already built it.

Illegal immigration has been steadily decreasing since 2007. The existing measures work.

If we didn't need the wall in 2017 and 2018, we don't need it now either.

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