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If there was an election today. He would crush it.

He would crush it today, and he's gonna crush it in 2020. There isn't a single Democrat on the scene that has the American people's interests listed as a priority. Not one. All they care about is stopping Trump. Their policies aren't even well thought out, the only prerequisite to their policies is that they oppose Trump's. Democrats care more about damaging the image of Republican's than they do about solving problems that plague Americans.

I didn't vote for Trump in '16, I thought he was just another bag of hot air. I will most certainly vote for him 2020, and his successor in 2024!

But what if he isn't building the wall to keep illegals out? What if he is building it to keep citizens in?

Cool

Then a lot of people will be trapped inside.

Here is the reality of what will happen. The Gulf of Mexico will have a lot more boat traffic.
So when people want to sneak in they will have to pay the boatman to get in.

This means boatmen smuggling people in will make good money.
The next prez will need more coast guard

There's no issue at all with the Coast Guard protecting those areas and monitoring every single boat.

Okay do you mean you dont mind the coast guard checking each and every boat in the gulf of New Mexico.
Once it is not in international waters?

We would need a shit ton of coast guard boats.

Way more costly then a wall.

The wall would bring up huge costs for the coast guard.....

I'm not concerned about that. Put it this way. The Border Patrol says they need a wall. The Coast Guard isn't saying they need more boats and they're not saying a wall will hurt them. For the Coast Guard, you are basically looking at the Texas coast. One or two hundred miles of that lead into the King Ranch, which is bad or worse as trying to go through the New Mexico desert.

Granted, other areas a boat could be beached and illegals could start walking inland.

But FYI, there's free and simple access across the border for all the Mexicans, they just can't pass the checkpoints that are 50 miles inland. That's where they get turned around. So Mexicans just come across and then try to figure how to sneak past those checkpoints, or they just live on our side.

I think the issue is folks from Central and South America.

Been forty years since I lived in San Diego went to TJ countless times.
I also would go to some town about 60 miles south of TJ in the Baha

And sometimes would camp out in a border town called Jacumba you could simply walk back and forth across the border with zero issues.

But so much has changed from 1978 to now. So much of what was true back in 1978-1981 when I lived there is not true anymore.