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Jimbo1337 on 24 August 2015
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Normchacho said:
Azuren said:
For the sake of argument, I keep hearing that he would be an awful president, etc etc... But can anyone tell me why? Legitimate reasons for things he said that he WILL do, and why that would have a negative impact.


Besides the fact that he's a cantankerous asshole who will more than likely do huge harm to our relationship with any country he meets with? I really don't have time to go over everything, so I'll just do one.

Lets go with his wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

There are several really glaring issues with building a wall to stop illegal immigration. They include,

1. The illegal immigrant population on the U.S. has actually been dropping since 2007. Going from 12.2 million, down to 11.3 million in 2014.

2. Only about half of illegal immigrants who enter the United States each year are Mexican. Many of them are Caribean, or Asian.

3. Economists don't actually agree on the effects of illegal immigration, some say it's bad for the economy, other say it's good.

4. A single mile or single layer fence currently costs an average of 3.9 million dollars. So you'd be looking at a project in the tens of billions of dollars (Which Trump plans to make Mexico pay for...somehow) to partialy solve a problem that is getting better on it's own and we aren't even really sure how bad of a problem it is.

1.) First off, that makes absolutely no sense and I would love for you to provide the source where you got this info from so I can rip that source apart.  There are about 400,000 people crossing the border illegaly each year and this information is coming from Obama himself. So yes, illegal immigration is an issue and has been for a long time.

2.) How does this make Trump a bad person?  You just simply stated who is coming across the border...

3.) So because people don't agree, Trump is a bad person?  Please tell me who these economists are and the source so yet again I can rip that source apart.  I would just like for you to give me just one reason why illegal immigrants are better for this country as opposed to those same people coming over legally.

4.)  So because you don't understand how Trump, who is worth 10 billion dollars, would make Mexico build the wall, he is therefore a bad presidential candidate? Let me guess, Obama is a wonderful person for giving 150 billion dollars to Iran who is saying "Death to America, death to Israel".

@bold - I can't even take you seriously when you say things are "getting better" and "aren't even really sure" in the same sentence.