Fear Of Immigrants Is A Multi-Million Dollar Industry

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As it turns out, hating immigrants isn’t just a great way for Republicans to energize their base, it’s also a great way to repay some of their corporate campaign donors. With the recent fervor over keeping immigrants from entering the United States, the business of border security is absolutely booming, creating a lot of wealth for a few individuals. And if Republicans get their way and finally build a wall that stretches across our southern border, you can bet that Republican donors will get their cement mixers ready to roll.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses the big business of border security with attorney Howard Nations.

[yuiyoshida]

1. Thats not a wall...this is a wall...

[SummerSnow]

2. trumps wall

[progree]

3. Well, maybe we can bottle the immigrants up in the border states, keep them from getting very far

Voters Who Favor Border Wall Cannot Identify Border on Map

August 31, 2015

As America's bridges, roads, and other infrastructure dangerously deteriorate from decades of neglect, there is a mounting sense of urgency that it is time to build a giant wall.

Across the U.S., whose rail system is a rickety antique plagued by deadly accidents, Americans are increasingly recognizing that building a wall with Mexico, and possibly another one with Canada, should be the country's top priority.

Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of a Washington-based think tank called the Center for Responsible Immigration, believes that most Americans favor the building of border walls over extravagant pet projects like structurally sound freeway overpasses.

"The estimated cost of a border wall with Mexico is five billion dollars," he said. "We could easily blow the same amount of money on infrastructure repairs and have nothing to show for it but functioning highways."

Congress has dragged its feet on infrastructure spending in recent years, but Dorrinson senses growing support in Washington for building a giant border wall. "Even if for some reason we don't get the Mexicans to pay for it, five billion is a steal," he said.

While some think that America's declining infrastructure is a national-security threat, Dorrinson strongly disagrees. "If immigrants somehow get over the wall, the condition of our bridges and roads will keep them from getting very far," he said.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/voters-who-favor-border-wall-cannot-identify-border-on-map
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