I read someone say today that funding a border wall would be a waste of money because we have homeless veterans and an underfunded education system. Curious, I looked up how many homeless vets there were and was shocked that more unaccompanied minors are apprehended at the border than there are actual homeless vets.
Evidently, unaccompanied minors aren't put in cages, but rather shelters or with sponsors and allowed to stay until their case is heard.
Curious, I googled "cost of educating undocumented students," and got an outdated 2010 article from ajc.com
In 2008, there were supposedly an estimated 3.7 million children in the United States with undocumented parents. The national average per pupil cost to educate students was $12,028.
I don't know if those 3.7 million were attending public schools, but if they were, they cost taxpayers $44.5 billion in 2008.
I could be wrong, but $44.5 billion is much less than what has been projected to build the wall.
I am not cherry picking numbers. Some people either have broken their google or lack the ability to correlate the exponential costs relating to not securing the porous border.
Would a border wall really be a waste of money?
It would be built in the United States by legal residents at some point, right?
Those jobs may be temporary, but workers will need to be fed and housed.
Once the wall was built, people could shut up about the wall, but I personally think it should be turned in to a monument in memory of every taxpayer who ever filed a tax return. People would know where their names were etched and could visit the wall and get a rubbing.
It would be nice to have a monument for the living, wouldn't it?
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