I'm trying to imagine what $5.7 billion could do in terms of REAL national security.

[TygrBright]

We have 328 Ports of Entry, and approximately 153 consulates and embassies around the world. Imagine the improvements in data management those nearly 500 facilities could implement for $5.7 billion. Additional staff could be processing requests for visas, for asylum, for all forms of entry, providing fast and secure processing at ports of entry, tracking visa holders and enforcing visa limits, providing secure asylum, identifying sponsors, nailing employers of undocumented and exploited workers, liaising with local law enforcement and social services, managing wait lists, operating courts to provide expeditious decisions...

And all of those jobs would be good quality jobs, able to hire qualified individuals, with excellent training and advancement available, building economic strength and improving relations with host countries, giving legal immigrants the opportunity to add to America's economic growth and mesh with new communities, and meeting crises and special needs with flexibility, skill, and even-handed judgment.

Instead, what does [Redacted] want to provide?

A wall to keep brown people out at the southern border.

WTF, people?

Stop claiming you care about immigration policy and/or national security and just call it what it is: a monument to ignorance, and our own national pride in being mean, racist goobers.

wearily,
Bright

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. A lot, as to a 2000 mile wall it would barely pay for the plans.

[ProudLib72]

2. True, but that does not help the coal miners who only want to mine coal

And whose chief concern is immigrants coming over the border to steal their jobs (even though those jobs no longer exist).

You, my friend, are thinking in 21st century terms. The deplorables think in medieval terms at best and stone age terms at worst. Rampant xenophobia and nationalism preclude any attempt to put your plan for the $5.7 billion into practice.

[grumpyduck]

3. Yeah, but remember $5.7B

is the current number. If many previous Federal jobs are any indication, that figure will have probably doubled by the time the dust settles.