What to happened to Mexico paying for the wall?
“What to happened to Mexico paying for the wall?”
As a practical matter, we need to get it done, and squeeze the money out of them over time, through other means, like NAFTA.
You could say that the loss of remittances back to Mexico, as lots of illegals are deported, is a financial loss to Mexico and a benefit to the USA (lower welfare and incarceration costs).
It is tough for a huge, rich country like the USA to dig up the $10 or $20 billion dollars required. Mexico could not muster that kind of money out of their federal budget, in the timeframes that we want.
Bottom Line: It is still worth doing, even if we have to put the investment up ourselves.
“What to happened to Mexico paying for the wall?”
But let’s be serious: the Wall will benefit all of this nation. We spend over $100 billion/year on illegals for security, the direct cost of crime, extra police, jails, education, medical costs, etc., etc. Putting up the Wall for even $50 billion would have a break-even of about 6 months...and $50 billion is a vast overestimate of its cost.
Anyhow, Mexico will EFFECTIVELY pay for it with lost remittances from illegals (IMHO legals can do as they wish with their own money, so long as they’ve paid taxes on it the way that the rest of us must). But that’s not my focus - what is important IMHO is saving us from a lot of expenses, a lot of crime and a lot of drugs being poured into this country. Will the Wall solve every problem related to illegal immigration? No, not by a long shot...but the name of the game is progress, not perfection.