Is the Great Wall of Mexico working or has this become just another financial sinkhole into which our tax dollars are flushed away? Government loves to throw money at band-aid fixes to show the voters they know how to tackle a problem. The real problem is that they don’t know to ‘fix’ this problem.
This 700-mile-long joke of a wall that congress is convinced is the ‘only’ answer to the immigration problem is facilitating a multi-million dollar business in human smuggling. If it was effective then human smuggling and trafficking at this border would have stopped. That is not happening.
Police still raid drop houses in U.S. cities filled with illegals who pay $1,500 to $2,000 each to be smuggled here, usually 30-50 people are crammed in those houses. The accommodations for these illegals are atrocious. Conditions are inhumane. Men, women and children are beaten and tortured to extort extra money once the ‘product’ gets here, this is how these humans are viewed, as product. Plumbing usually doesn’t work because these houses are just shells to hide these people. There are no utilities. Toilets are filled with human waste and buckets are dispersed throughout the house as makeshift toilets. There is no food. There is no running water.
Then there are the even more despicable opportunists who are the very Americans paid to guard the border who smuggle humans in. Three members of the Texas National Guard helping patrol the Mexican border were charged with human smuggling. One Guardsman, in uniform, was stopped by federal agents driving a van crammed with 24 illegal immigrants north of Laredo, Texas.
Who are the losers here? The immigrant who pays outrageous sums to get around the wall. Police for having to deal with the mess. Taxpayers for paying police to deal with the mess. Homeowners in these neighborhoods from loss of property values because no one wants to live in areas where this is taking place. The relatives of those people working in the U.S. (illegal or otherwise) sending money back to them to be smuggled over here. The American taxpayer, again, who is paying for a wall that is worthless (a symbol of our comic attempt to stop the flow). Humanity suffers at the degradation these coyotes and snakeheads show their fellow humans. U.S. taxpayers, yet again, because money earned by illegals get sent back to their homes instead of feeding our economy, and that money gets paid to coyotes and the cycle continues. The IRS by not collecting the taxes that every legal employee in this country has to pay for the privilege of being a legal American. The American taxpayer again for having to pay transportation costs for deporting these illegals. Wage loss due to the influx of cheap labor.
The winners are coyotes who take the money for transporting illegals to these shit-holes and then run back for more. U.S. employers who get cheap labor by hiring illegals and pocketing the money that should have gone into federal, state and local coffers, along with Social Security, Medicare and Worker Comp funds. These same employers benefit from these funds even though they did not contribute to them.
Our government assures us that this wall is necessary to stop terrorists from ‘hiking’ into the country from the south. I am not convinced that terrorists are ‘hiking’ into the U.S. but if they are serious about this problem then why aren’t the hordes of illegals that are running across stopped? And why isn’t human and drug smuggling being stopped?
Is money being made by those people who say they want to stop it but don’t?
The wall is working, for some people.
Law enforcement officials are seeing a rise in the business of human smuggling. They also see money being made for Mexican drug cartels as well as U.S. gangs. Human smuggling is becoming more lucrative than drug smuggling. Human smugglers also use their cargo as a diversionary tactic to draw border agents away from where they are smuggling large quantities of drugs across the border. Smugglers who get caught get a free trip home, without punishment, at taxpayers expense.
Building this wall is the wrong way to address this problem. Law abiding U.S. citizen, trying to makes ends meet are tired of paying excess taxes so our political ‘representatives’ can throw it away at meaningless ‘fixes’ to a problem that won’t go away.
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