The Wall will only stop those now walking across the border. Any suggestion that it will solve the entire illegal immigration in the US is bullshit.
The cost is something anyone can work out on a scrap of paper. Take all the illegal immigrants in prison, on some sort of welfare or government money, all those in a job, all those who are criminals, gangs and occupying the police, all those who heed housing. Then total it up and come to a figure. Is it $100 Billion or $200 billion
per year. Even if you take the figures of the liberals illegal immigration which are very wrong missing out on so many negatives they pitch it at $54 billion
per year.
Here's some numbers. DOJ:
26% of Federal Prisoners Are Aliens. and
U.S. Spend $80 Billion a Year on Incarceration? By deterring 5% a year The Wall pays for itself in a year.
Unemployment benefits cost: $520 billion. Getting 1% of Americans into jobs currently done by illegal immigrants The Wall pays for itself in a year.
[URL="https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2018/02/26/how-american-citizens-finance-health-care-for-undocumented-immigrants/#16e9ea8212c4[/URL]. Total Health care costs for illegal immigrants.
The real problem is this is a policy arrived at by someone who looks at the real bottom line not uses fuzzy numbers to prove their point. But even the most fuzzy of those numbers say illegal immigration costs $54 billion
per year. The wall is a one off $5 billion. A wall is harder to climb than a fence and the percentage it needs to stop is nothing compared with what illegal immigration costs.