in the past most of the people in this room voted for a wall but the proper
wall never got built I will get it built on February the 15th 2019 the presidents
of the United States Donald Trump decreed a state of national emergency to
confront this national security crisis last month I declared a national
emergency initially he did this against his own lawyers recommendation and
opposition from practically all of the Democrats as well as a good number of
Republicans I watch some good people they're friends of mine
very concerned by his own accounts the president made this decision to
accomplish what Congress was preventing him from doing building the
controversial wall along the Mexican border according to the president the
United States is suffering from an invasion of drugs immigrants and
criminals that is putting national security at risk not one more American
life should be lost because our nation fails to control it's very dangerous
border now according to Mick Mulvaney the president's chief of staff the
administration will have about eight billion dollars to close the Mexican
border in the name of national security but Istavan effects because this is
significant when we started this project visual politic we wanted to create a
channel where we could tell you about the things that were happening in the
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information as references and folks that's precisely what we like to do
where the along Donald Trump or not no matter how you feel about immigration
what we are going to tell you in this video is what the latest information
tells us
a little more than two years ago Donald Trump arrived at the White House with a
promise that stood out above the rest to build a huge wall along the entire
Mexican border we're gonna build the wall we have no choice a wall of almost
2,000 miles that's more than 3,000 kilometers give you an idea of what this
means we can take a look at what this project might end up costing first let's
say in the consideration that there are more than 600 miles of walls and fences
already built to close the border to Trump specifications that is by building
a wall that is at least 30 feet high with mario's that hinder the
construction of tunnels would cost according to the best estimates more
than 30 billion dollars the Department of national security has estimated the
cost of completing the borders closure to be more than 20 billion that is if
they opted for a more modest alternative based on the existing section a
combination of walls and fences and a still rings in a twenty billion dollars
and we're not only talking about construction costs because you can tell
you that maintaining such an infrastructure is not going to be cheap
now before we just write this whole thing off on cost alone I think there
are a few questions that we should probably answer why has this wall been
so controversial why opposable that in principle would
maintain order at the border enforce the law and dissuade many people from
embarking on a journey that could cost them their lives and is there any truth
in Trump's claim that with this wall the United States would be a safer country
well listen up the wall history and unexpected consequences the truth is
that Donald Trump's proposal it isn't exactly original idea of closing the
Mexican border it began in 1986 when Ronald Reagan built 22 kilometres of
steel fences in San Diego he did this in exchange for legalizing millions of
illegal immigrants in what has become the largest naturalization program in
the history of the United States is the most comprehensive reform of our
immigration laws since 1952 it's the product of one of the longest and most
difficult legislative undertakings in the last three congresses further it's
an excellent example of a truly successful bipartisan effort Hispanics
honor Nancy Reagan and thank the amnesty signed by her husband Ronald in 86 yep
that was certainly a rather different era for the Republican Party and these
are employers down through the years who have encouraged the illegal entry into
this country because they then hire these individuals and hire them as
starvation wages and with none of the benefits that we think are normal and
natural for workers in our country I believe in the idea of amnesty for those
who have put down roots and who have lived here even though some time back
they may have entered illegally
the fact is that by the year 2000 the length of the fortified border with
walls or fences had barely grown to 60 miles or about a hundred kilometers and
almost all of that was in urban areas what is it we have here
your Spanish today was just been fatal bus in 2006 there was a dramatic turning
point in exchange for putting forward a bill that would help naturalize almost
all illegal immigrants a law that in the end wasn't approved George Bush agreed
to build a border fence of almost 700 miles
most of these agreed fences are in place today the point is that these barriers
have had consequences that just might surprise you see until the 1990s people
could move rather freely across the border so many workers mainly from
Mexico crossed between the two countries numerous times for example they crossed
it for agricultural work during the summer and then returned home during the
winter that way although many people crossed the border irregularly the
number of illegal immigrants permanently living in the United States remained
more or less stable at around 3 million people however as the kilometers of
fences walls and border controls increased that cost of crossing the
border it skyrocketed between 1995 and 2009 the cost of crossing the border for
an immigrants rose from 500 dollars to more than 5,000 they multiplied by 10
this huge increase in the cost of crossing the border along with the
higher risks of being detained caused people who did make it to the United
States to simply stay there and work and not leave and that's precisely one of
the reasons why in spite of having three times as many border agents in more than
600 miles of completed fences and walls the number of illegal immigrants living
in the United States today is much higher than it was in the 70s 80s or 90s
now there are other factors that contribute to this of course but this is
a significant one it supports the argument that the wall might not be as
effective in reducing immigration as it would seem at the end of the day the
incentive to cross the border is so great that walls haven't been an
impediment even though the mechanisms to cross them have become more expensive
it appears that balls are indeed having the opposite effect on permanent
immigration to the intended one
what's more we can't forget that in recent years there has been another
great change these days the vast majority of illegal immigrants no longer
cross the border illegally basically they take a plane that lands in the
United States and when their visa expires as they just stay and the wall
it's not going to do anything to stop that happening
the folks this only partially answers our questions we need to now see how the
war could stem the invasion of criminals which Donald Trump considers for
national emergency
the non national emergency the white house is very clear on one
point the Mexican water has become an entry points for foreign criminals to
enter the u.s. ceiling this border is a matter of national security but how true
is this really well if it were true would likely see three things first
there would be some evidence of criminals arriving across the border
second the border zones would be dangerous places for example for the
people working border security I mean if the border was infested with criminals
and drug dealers cross it like it's their territory than being a border
guard would be quite a dangerous profession and third the state's most
affected by crime would be those that have the most illegal immigrants so ask
yourself this question do you think these three points bear outs in reality
well let's start with the first question shall we
if the border is leaking criminals it would follow that you would see many
criminals going through it well folks according to the US government's own
data this isn't quite so illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol's
to have very low crime histories and on top of that the number is getting
smaller for example only point zero four percents of illegal immigrants arrested
had convictions for serious crimes like homicide
this rate is lower than that of the United States as a whole because the
thing is at the border we typically see families arriving you want some more
data the rate of murders of Border Guard security staff that is the people who
are on the front lines against all those invading criminals is just two agents
per hundred thousand this is almost ten times lower than the 19.7 rate recorded
for the police force throughout the rest of the country it is also less than half
of the murder rates in the general population of the United States
in other words border guards are less likely to be murdered at work than any
other citizen of the United States going about their regular lives all this means
that to say there's a national emergency at the border would mean that other US
cities basically war zones but I don't want some of you might be thinking right
now you're thinking what Simon criminals are very clever and they know how to get
past border patrol without being arrested well in that case let's imagine
that some of these bad dudes are getting through probably then expect to see some
evidence of increased criminal activity in the border territories right well
let's check the data it turns out that the crime rate in the 23 counties
located along the Mexican border is actually lower than rates in u.s.
counties that knots on the Mexican border
in Texas the rate of criminal convictions for illegal immigrants is
almost half of that of official residence
all of this brings us to our third point is it true that the most dangerous
states in the United States are the ones with the most illegal immigrants because
well they're more likely to commit crimes well the answer to that is no not
at all in fact it really is the opposite
illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the general US
population and by the way legal immigrants are even less likely the
states where high percentages of the population are made up of illegal
immigrants while they're actually safer
look folks we can discuss whether immigration is positive or negative
effects on the economy which is something we've talked about here on
this channel in the past but in the United States it's clear that immigrants
do not have a negative effect on crime in fact it's quite the opposite it's
also clear that the wall is not gonna stop illegal immigration
therefore spending millions on something useless it might not be the smartest
move that's why so many people oppose the precious wall including many many
Republicans we will defend the American Way of life
and we will always defend we don't have a country
when you consider facts and data the wall policy is just sloppy and this
isn't even to mention Trump's abuse of power in trying to bypass Congress's
Authority and the separation of powers with a tool designed exclusively for
farad war cases of national emergency I watch of good people that friends of
mine and this obviously is not an emergency particularly because neither
national security is at risk nor biz illegal immigration something that is
going to be solved immediately or simply
so finally folks with this video we tried to collect the main points and lay
them on the table so we can understand why so many people oppose the war
because opposing the wallet doesn't necessarily imply being in favor of open
borders it simply means being against an idea
that looking at the data available only seems to benefit the companies that are
gonna build it by the way in order to build it the United States government
would have to expropriate its rights over an enormous amount of privately
owned territory which seems a bit heavy-handed don't you think so I really
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