Very well said.

Walls don’t work. Illegal immigrants have tunneled underneath and/or erected ramps up and down walls to simply drive over them. People find a way.

Most illegal immigrants are “overstayers.” They come to the US legally — for vacations, business, to study, etc. — and then STAY past their visas. A wall is meaningless here!

Walls have little impact on drugs being brought in to the US. According to the DEA, almost all drugs come in through legal points of entry, hidden in secret containers and/or among legit goods in tractor-trailers.

A wall will have little to no impact on the influx of drugs into our country. Besides, no wall will ever deter Americans from their use of illegal drugs.

A wall would forces the U.S. government to take land from private citizens in eminent domain battles. Private citizens own much of the land slated for the wall. The costs of the government snatching private land — and the legal battles that would ensue — are incalculable.

Border patrol agents don’t like concrete or steel walls because they block surveillance capabilities and also say that “walls are meaningless without agents and technology to back them up.” Are we prepared to pour countless billions annually — after the wall is built — to create a nearly 2,000 mile, militarized 24-hour surveillance border operation? Are we seriously going to model ourselves on East Germany and their wall?

Where walls have been built, there was “no discernable impact on the influx of unauthorized aliens.” In other words, they came in elsewhere, primarily where natural barriers such as water or mountainous regions precluded a wall.

According to MIT engineers, the wall would cost $31.2 billion. Homeland Security estimates it at $22 billion. Given the pattern of spending mentioned in number 10 (plus Murphy’s Law), that means we’re really talking about pouring endless billions into something that doesn’t even work. And, of course, we taxpayers will be footing the bill, not Mexico.

Two people are holding America hostage: Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. The House passed legislation that is nearly identical to legislation already passed in the Senate, minus the wall funding, but McConnell will not bring it up for a vote, because he says Trump will not sign it. Put the blame where it belongs.