Trump's $25 billion wall would be nearly impossible to build, according to architects
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TRUMP’S WALL: IMPRACTICAL, IMPOLITIC, IMPOSSIBLE
As with most Trump proposals to “make America great again,” he has been long on promises and short on details. In the months since the official launch of his campaign on June 17, 2015, however, journalists have forced him into giving some details of the wall he envisions, and most recently, The Washington Post pushed him to provide a general explanation of how he was going to get Mexico to pay for the wall.
Trump’s wall typifies his governing ideas and tactics. He has simply tossed out a thought without carefully thinking it through. As a result, it is unrealistic and unworkable. It would likely cause more harm than good. No informed person with whom I have spoken believes any good could come from such a wall, although there is no shortage of bad things that could occur.
Nor is there public clamor for such a draconian sealing of our southern border. According to the latest Pew Research Poll, only about a third of Americans support the idea of a wall, with Republicans predominantly favoring it.
Pew reports, “By nearly two-to-one (63 percent to 33 percent), Republicans and GOP leaners favor building a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. By contrast, just 13 percent of Democrats favor building a border wall, while 84 percent are opposed.”
This harebrained idea should never come to fruition because even if the wall could be built, it would be a monument to the isolationism and nativism Donald Trump espouses, and it would hardly be worth the expense, for it is not a solution to our nation’s immigration problems.
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