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The US could build a border wall but why? I would rather we just pick the best of the people coming and punish and deport people that end up being shit bags if they fail the trial run rather than building a wall.

As long as the US treats people that are here illegally with kid gloves people will keep coming in large numbers and why shouldn't they? I don't demonize these people its a rational decision to come here and work and for decades we have basically said "its illegal to come here, but no ones checking IDs or anything once we get here and the pay is 10 times better".

It is 2021. If the US really wanted to stop illegal immigration we could implement a national ID system and just do ID checks all over the place until everyone thats an illegal immigrant is deported. Everyone knows this. It would feel mean because it would be mean and you would see millions of people deported but it would cost less and be a lot more effective and less ridiculous than building a giant wall across the entire southern border if your actual goal was to deport people that are here illegally.

Instead both parties for decades have played this game where they pretend to care about illegal immigration to placate the plebs as they just shrug and let the flow continue.