Of course it is. Building walls is awesome. There should be walls and fences built everywhere. Certainly on the southern border with Mexico, that's a no-brainer. And everyone knows we need one up north to keep the Canadians out. Walls and fences, the bigger the better with razor barbed wire on top, maybe a moat or two in front, it's the way to go. I'm not conviced we shouldn't have massive walls separating our States as well.
Tibs, I asked in another thread and did not get an answer.
You live in Hungary, right? So what would you know about illegal immigration in, say, Los Angeles, where I live??? Serious question.
I ask because I see what illegal immigration has done to Los Angeles. Public hospitals are overflowing and many shut down due to fact that they have to treat illegals for free.
Public schools are in horrible condition due to the massive influx of students completely unprepared to learn in English. Further, we spend a ****-ton of money feeding the students because the parents can't or won't. As a result of "white flight," public schools are now basically babysitters and restaurants for grade school kids and teenagers, where the graduation rate is woeful, and the literacy rate even worse.
Further, illegal immigrants routinely have multiple families sharing a single-bedroom apartment to save money. Those apartments then are driven into disrepair since they are not meant to house 10 people, including 5 adults. The ****** living conditions then have the desirable tenants move out, since they don't want to live in an apartment building with the noise, smell and traffic caused by so money people living in a small unit. The apartment buildings then become "illegal central," where every unit has more people living in it than it was designed to handle. The outcome is that the living conditions become 3rd world.
I know this because I have represented landlords in tenant-landlord disputes, and I see the conditions. The tenants say that the landlord is responsible for changing light-bulbs, shampooing carpets made filthy by tremendous foot traffic in a 650 square foot unit, for fixing drains clogged by tenants who make food to sell on the street and are therefore running an ersatz restaurant.
Further, the illegal immigrant population has resulted in a huge number of gang members and crime. In sum, illegal immigration has brought about (1) overwhelming demands on the public health system, (2) resulting in some hospitals just closing the emergency room to avoid having to provide free care to illegals, (3) a degradation of our public education with lower graduation rates and a student population shuffled off to school for the free food, (4) decline in living conditions, (5) increase in gang activity, and (6) an increase in crime.
I say this based on personal observation, personal experience and data.
Let me put it this way: If the Mexicans coming to Los Angeles were an economic
benefit, and not a burden, Mexico would have built the ******* wall.
