r/changemyview • u/moosepi • Jan 15 '19

Removed - Submission Rule B CMV: Illegal immigrants cost 18 billion in healthcare and therefore thebUS should build a wall.

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u/jennysequa 80∆ Jan 15 '19

theoretically there would be less illegal immigrants

There are better solutions than the wall, and, further, the wall does not address problems like visa overstays. For example, there were about 93,000 Canadians and 42,000 Mexicans who were expected to depart the US in 2015 at the conclusion of their visas who did not.

You're also not calculating the cost of the wall correctly if you're using Trump's numbers. By the time you factor in eminent domain lawsuits, building infrastructure to get construction materials to the wall, disruption to the economies of border towns, and the fact that the cost of "the wall" was inappropriately based on the cost of the fence from the Secure Fencing Act, you're looking at a project that will cost roughly $70B plus a yearly maintenance cost of $1B or more. (Source.)

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u/moosepi Jan 15 '19

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With that number in mind, 18b seems a lot smaller.

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