AProudNavyVeteran69 Loc: Burien,Washington

Manion: Why the Wall Will Work

April 23, 2016 by Jay Hamilton 2 Comments

Christopher Manion explains how Donald Trump’s proposal for a border wall and one Mexico will pay for will work.

First, a little history lesson on the efficacy of walls in Mexico and among elites in the United States.

While elites on both sides of the border have resorted to feigned mockery regarding Trump’s proposal, the Mexican people would hardly find it unusual. After all, virtually every family in Mexico builds a wall around their home as soon as they can afford one. Those walls, often topped with glass, barbed wire, or both, are as necessary to their daily lives, health, and safety as indoor plumbing.US-Mexico_border_fence

Even liberals understand the necessity of walls. Five years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat and second-generation Mexican-American, demanded an exception to zoning laws so he could build a six-foot high wall around his official residence. And Hillary Clinton’s family home in Chappaqua, New York, is surrounded by a high security fence complete with a guardhouse.

Mexico’s rulers vehemently oppose the wall and really anything which cuts the flow of illegal immigration. The main reasons are twofold.

First, the Mexican ruling party maintains its power by fostering a resentment against the United States. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the illegal immigrant exodus operates as a de facto welfare program for Mexico’s elites.

The remittances from illegal aliens offer low income Mexicans the kids of welfare they are not granted by their own country. This allows the Mexican elites to loot the country without facing social revolution.



So, putting this system in peril, through Trump’s plan to block remittances, strikes at the heart of the Mexican political elites power structure.

Here is where the wall comes in: those welfare benefits are also promised to their people by the government of Mexico. However, the corruptos (as Mexicans call their rulers) guarantee that they are never delivered. Instead, Mexicans working in the U.S. send back to their extended families tens of billions of dollars a year, resulting in an extensive Mexican welfare system, a courtesy extended to the Mexican elite establishment by its enthusiastic elitist counterparts in the United States.

These financial remittances are called remesas, and Donald Trump proposes that the U.S. impose a surcharge on each of them, since they constitute an indirect but de facto Mexican government welfare program designed to prevent unrest or even broader domestic violence at home – after all, we must recall, Mexico’s official “Institutional Revolutionary Party” is well-entrenched, and with rare exceptions has controlled the country for almost a century. The remesas provide a safety valve that reduces the threat of serious unrest, allowing the corruptos to keep the party going unperturbed.

Remittances are far more important to Mexico than to the U.S. So, has Donald Trump found the weak point in the Mexican government’s hand regarding illegal immigration?

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Because if Trump is elected, he will destroy any path to Illegals in this Country, and Mexico will have to take care of it's own people in their own Country. LOL!!! And you know how Pissed Off Mexico's President will be.OH!!!IDDY!!BOO!!!! LOL!!!!

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

If walls didn't work,!!!!!!! Israel would not have built walls!🤗

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I wonder why the drug cartels build elaborate tunnels, if they're no walls now? I wonder why we refer to illegals as "fence jumpers", if there are no fences? It would appear that many folks have forgotten the fact that we DO have walls NOW in places - and they haven't stopped anything.

Does Trump intend to install seismic detectors every 6 feet to discover tunneling? What will they do then, keep listening and surprise the miners when they break surface? Who will man the top of the wall, to catch those going over it? Anything can be scaled you know.

The concept of " a wall" is a marketing gimmick, like trading a cow for magic beans, but asking a few questions shows the flaws in the concept.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

People "build walls" and are able to keep certain things at bay because of them..Nothing is perfect but a Wall to keep illegals out is a start..That and enforcing the many laws already in place but not utilized..More want the illegals for gain rather than not, for Country!!

The best wall to build is to remove that $58 billion trade with Mexico and get rid of the drug cartel, runners and guns they bring in to sell..Hit em in the pocket in other words and they will keep their own where they belong, home!

PawneeCounty Loc: Oklahoma USA

Well lets see: We used to call them Wetbacks but the Rio Grandee only has a lot water in it during certain times a year through West Texas most of the time it is merely a stream. There are ways of building a wall that may not be totally unclimbable but so difficult it would be nearly imposable to transverse. Trump has also talked of expanding the Border Patrol and using the National Guard for border security. Tunnels are harder to stop totally but the average illegal don't use tunnels the Cartels mostly use that form. However a real good fence will allow more time for Border Security Agencies to find and destroy those tunnels.

So I ask you sense you seem to think you know so much about it. What do you suggest the deterrent be?

PawneeCounty Loc: Oklahoma USA

Spot on girl.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Thank You Pawnee...I enjoy reading your posts as well.....