What Trump should have said about the need for a Wall

1/11/19

While I thought President Trump did a very good job at laying out the reasons for a physical barrier on the southern border on Tuesday 1/8/19, I thought there were a few points he could have hit harder.

He said taxpayers are paying billions and billions for accommodating illegal aliens. I don’t know the actual numbers but I do know to what illegal aliens avail themselves in our country. First, no person presenting themselves to a licensed hospital for urgent can be turned away by law. When you hear of the horror stories of waiting hours and hours for service in an emergency room, part of that is your health insurance premium, Medicare and Medicaid taxes and outright direct payments going to pay for the persons here illegally getting treatment while you sit. When a child presents his/herself to a public school, they are allowed to register and attend classes by law. This means that the extra teachers and staff to handle English as a second language, psychological counseling to help assimilate the child, health provisions (vaccinations etc.) all have to be provided on your dime.

Law enforcement costs are also increased. It is a canard that identifying illegals and dealing with them causes these minority communities to shutdown and stop aiding law enforcement in their duties. Even illegals don’t want to be robbed, raped or extorted. Instead, law enforcement has to deal with uninsured drivers who cause accidents and commit crimes using their vehicles to say nothing of the heinous felonies that have been well documented. These crimes clog our courts with cases funded with taxpayer paid lawyers, interpreters and other legal services. In some cases, taxpayers are doubly hurt when the victim of an illegal alien crime sues the state for not taking steps to prevent the crime in the first place.

President Trump could have turned directly to the news coming out of the El Chapo trial and added detail about how drugs permeate the southern border. Evidence of cocaine, marijuana and other illegal drugs flooding through this man’s enterprise are not to be disputed. No fake data there and lots of it to support the contention that at least a physical barrier causes drug smugglers to find different paths.

Finally, where was a real story about human trafficking? The plight of teenage girls being subjected to forced lives of sexual exploitation should cause every American to rise up and say enough is enough. That coyotes bring thousands of women and children into this country only to be used and abused should have been a bigger part of the reason a physical barrier is paramount as part of the effort to stop the invasion that has  been occurring on our southern border.

The President did well to lay out the areas of neglect. I only wish he would have gone even further.