Trump and his followers make the critical error that a "wall" will stop immigrants from coming in and asking for asylum. It will not. Nor will it stop very many who simply want a "better life" here. And the $5.6 billion is to START building the wall, not the total expense. Nor the support and upkeep that such would still need over time.

Every large scale study of actual behavior of undocumented immigrants in terms of criminal behavior shows them to be MORE LAW ABIDING and less dangerous than full citizens. Sure there are some bad apples who come into this country to live, but statistically there are FAR MORE who are natural born citizens who "turn bad" and do terrible things.

Immigrants are simply NOT the major forces in our crime and drug concerns.

OF COURSE we need better "border security," but a "wall" is old technology and simplistic thinking to be even generous in describing. How has the wall between areas of Israel and the Palestinian area worked? Answer there are tunnels under that too. How did the "Berlin Wall" keep the determined citizens of East Germany restrained within? How did the Great Wall of China end up protecting that from armed invaders? How did the many, many "walled castles" hold up across Europe? Walls do not have a successful history of effectiveness.

We NEED better security for sure, but through more modern technology and patrols. And we still need, many of us believe, a certain welcoming to those who want to come here, for the right reasons, even just to live a better life, as the Statue of Liberty offers.

MANY OF US ARE THE GENERATIONAL OFFSPRING OF UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS; and those aliens came here often with the intent of genocide toward the legitimate natives who populated this land.

We still have the capacity to be welcoming to those who wish to come, work, and live here toward their own betterment and the betterment of the whole country.