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I'm not saying that it was a good or efficient use of resources when Bush and Obama did it. It was costly. But when they did it, they were responding to surges in illegals crossing the borders at the time.

Right now, the idiot-in-chief has a solution looking for a problem. Which is what happens when the president is signing orders based on what he saw on Fox and Friends. According to the DHS at the end of last year, arrests of people trying to cross illegally from Mexico hit its lowest level since 1971, a 46-year low. Which makes sense, because things ain't that great in the U.S. for low skilled workers, and things have gotten better in Mexico during that time. To the extent there are people coming in, it has been from some of the central American countries, where there are gang problems, but it isn't like those people are streaming over the border. It's an arduous journey, and most can't afford it.

This administration has been endless bullshit designed to obscure fact and feed bigoted red meat to people looking to scapegoat others because they aren't happy with their lives. It's disgusting. What is sad is that the facts of the world don't even come close to the bullshit rationale for anything he does (I am thinking about the tariffs, too, which can get me going on a whole other tangent), yet there are enough ignorant people out there happy to buy into what is essentially veiled bigotry.