re: Political Breakdown of Shutdown Over Wall Funding

We need to get rid of the economic incentive for illegals to be here in the first place and implement an effective e-verification program to hold employers accountable for hiring illegals. Make it easy to use give it teeth. All the sudden problem solved.

A wall does nothing other than increase government spending. I'm all for border control and dealing with illegal immigration, but a coast to coast wall is just more government waste and a symbolic bid to buy votes. Implement monitoring technology, hire boarder control, beef up ICE, implement e-verification, get rid of anchor babies; these are things that work. Shutting down the government because we want government to spend billions to build a frickin wall though is ignorant.

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the powers that be want and push for the damned wall because they know it won't be effective. They can say look what we did while the flow of illegals still goes on.