People having fences around their property is not the same as putting up a border wall/fence whatever across land owned by citizens. Fences serve to mark property lines and keep livestock contained. Sometimes it's about keeping things IN rather than OUT. Even with fencing, things still get through.
Mind you, I am not opposed to walls/fences in strategic places, and with the permission of the land owners (none of the eminent domain land seizure crap). A wall of the scale Trump wants is not feasible or necessary. Furthermore, I do not trust him to have the $ appropriated properly & to not use it as some scam to line his pockets or aid the Russians. There have already been bids & proposals from Russians on the building of the wall.
Meanwhile, federal employees & contractors can't pay their bills. The contractors aren't allowed to take other jobs & will not receive back pay. The very people who enforce our border security are being furloughed or working unpaid so they have reduced staff-- weakening our border security.
Then there was that bit about the Mexicans driving really fast super-cars or something to get across the border. I don't know if someone told him to say that or if he just pulled it out of his nether regions. But, he is stuck on this whole wall thing to the detriment of our country and citizens. And because he's holding federal employees hostage, he's guaranteeing that the Democrats will not agree to his demands because they view it as a hostage situation & know that if they cave, he will just do it again every time he wants something & doesn't get his way. It's abuse of power and no president or Congress should use people as pawns like that. If it were reversed & the Democrats were the ones shutting things down and making demands from the Republicans, I would feel the same way.
Mind you, I am not opposed to walls/fences in strategic places, and with the permission of the land owners (none of the eminent domain land seizure crap). A wall of the scale Trump wants is not feasible or necessary. Furthermore, I do not trust him to have the $ appropriated properly & to not use it as some scam to line his pockets or aid the Russians. There have already been bids & proposals from Russians on the building of the wall.
Meanwhile, federal employees & contractors can't pay their bills. The contractors aren't allowed to take other jobs & will not receive back pay. The very people who enforce our border security are being furloughed or working unpaid so they have reduced staff-- weakening our border security.
Then there was that bit about the Mexicans driving really fast super-cars or something to get across the border. I don't know if someone told him to say that or if he just pulled it out of his nether regions. But, he is stuck on this whole wall thing to the detriment of our country and citizens. And because he's holding federal employees hostage, he's guaranteeing that the Democrats will not agree to his demands because they view it as a hostage situation & know that if they cave, he will just do it again every time he wants something & doesn't get his way. It's abuse of power and no president or Congress should use people as pawns like that. If it were reversed & the Democrats were the ones shutting things down and making demands from the Republicans, I would feel the same way.
