(01-17-2019, 06:57 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(01-17-2019, 05:00 PM)TJBender Wrote: Yes it is. Most of the people in this country that are here illegally overstayed their visa, or they came over for a perfectly legal trip and illegally decided not to return home. An illegal immigrant is more likely to attempt to cross the border while hidden inside of a semi or closed into the space under the back seat of a Ford than they are to hike for days through the desert. You're trying to sink $5 billion into a solution that doesn't solve the problem. Take the stupid wall out and fund everything else. Hell, take the stupid wall out and divert the $5.7B to other border security items that will be cost effective, doesn't screw over hundreds of species, increases the visible Border Patrol presence at legal crossings and the open border, and can't be defeated in a day by two dudes with shovels. I'm all for a wall if that wall consists of sensors buried underground designed to detect movement across them, cameras and drones to identify what's making that movement, and agents in cars, on horseback and in the air to detain any illegal human traffic. A physical barrier is a stupid non-solution to an overstated problem.

Not "most."

This is a frequently stated lie. There haven't been a lot of studies done. The most recent (2017) gave the figure of 42%. The last previous study was in 2006, with a figure of 45%.

The problem with these studies is that while it's easy to count visa overstays, the illegals crossing the border got in without being counted. I have a doubt that the visa overstay number is anywhere close to the 40-some percent quoted. When you can find me a "press two for Hindi" voicemail I'll rethink my position.