Trump's Wall - a Mass of Myths

Donald Trump says that a wall will make stop the flow of illegal immigrants and illegal narcotics into the U.S.  That's just not true.

NBC News reports that data from the Center on Migration Studies tell us that 2/3rd of the people in the U.S. illegally actually entered with a valid visa, and then didn't leave when it expired.

Data from the Pew Research Center shows that the number of people in the country illegally has been declining since hitting a peak of 12.2 million in 2007.

That data from Pew also shows that the number of illegal immigrants in the workforce, and as a percentage of the overall labor force have also declined.

Most illegal drugs no longer arrive in bags carried by those crossing the border illegally.  They are smuggled in through the legal ports of entry.  They come into the U.S. through the more than 200 tunnels dug beneath the border that have been discovered since 1990.  In April of 2016, one such tunnel that was more than one-half mile in length was discovered.  It had ventilation vents, electricity and rails to facilitate smuggling large quantities of "product."

Donald Trump has talked about the fact that the White House has a wall around it.  It actually has a fence.  But there are multiple layers of security on the inside of that wall.  Those layers are what makes the White House safe, not the fence itself.

When his supporters say that Trump is just trying to keep a campaign promise, they conveniently forget that one of his promises was that Mexico would pay for his wall.  If that were true, he wouldn't have forced the government to shut down because Congress won't give him the money that is supposed to come from Mexico.

Trump's wall.  Built on myths and lies.