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Originally Posted by adultinnovation
Obama wanted to build the wall first and Democrats were ok with it.
In fact, I think even Clinton approved of it.
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I believe you are talking about the Secure Fence Act.
Everyone wants proper border security. The Democrats themselves pushed through the Secure Fence Act. The problem is Trump wants to throw hundreds of millions of dollars into building a wall where it isn't needed. If Trump (or the Republican party for that matter) said the Border Patrol has identified two dozen areas where walls need to be built and created a bill around this and also included increased funding for Border Patrol agents, their training, and their gear, enhanced border security technology AND a comprehensive immigration plan.... It would difficult to say no to.
However, the entire Trump administration is completely and utterly incompetent. While Trump nutters brag about Trump's negotiation and accomplishments, after over two years in office NOTHING has been done. The Trump administration has poured a lot more money into recruiting new Border Patrol agents and actually recruited LESS agents. Kushner spent two years working on the immigration problem his entire plan focused around handing out visas to qualified people but failed to address any of the other issues. His plan was so bad it was laughed at by both sides.
We didn't have these issues under Obama. In fact, Obama arrested and deported more illegal immigrants than any other President. However, the Trump Nutters will be here surely to tel us how they "changed the reporting system" which is the same thing they say when we debate unemployment.
But hey, let's investigate the FBI.