The Federal Government already owns the first 60 ft along the Mexican border ,
established in 1907 , The Roosevelt Reservation . The same way the gov.
"owns" 60 feet from the center of a highway , you pay taxes on that land but if they want it they can take it /
The Roosevelt Reservation

Are you saying that when Trump says we need a wall, he's not talking about an actual physical barrier of some sort?

If I build a fence 20 feet from my property line, that doesn't mean I gave 20 feet of land to the neighbor.

His original statement was the analogy, now he has changed it to mean an actual physical presence, only after the media had corrupted his first statement so much, he figured why not just go with it, which then started a new crap store with the media who then tried to go back to his first statement as an analogy LOL

People don't get Trump cause he speaks off hand so much, he don't use speech writers for off the cuff remarks and does not care how others interpret them, never has, it's how he cornered many of his top business deals by throwing off the competitors, he's doing the same thing in office as he's not a politician, he is running his office like a business which is very plain to see to others who know how he became what he is now.

It's very easy to see when Trump is using a written speech, he's very off his speaking pattern, stumbles through it, his physical presence is off kilter, he is absolutely out of his element, the media always attributes it to some health element, it's quite hilarious !

To other's it's just running amok with crazy ideas. His methods are not book like but they are working as the economy is showing, should politicians be nervous, yes because they now know that other REGULAR people can run for office and succeed in doing so. They are now truly at risk of losing their career jobs !

Well said Grit .

that would work, or we could take the millions of people we already have here collecting welfare and send them all down there to build the wall. Make them work for there government check. We waste 100's of billions of dollars a year on welfare, about time we start getting something out of it

huh!

it's a shame we can't build structures in water!

btw...you live around there?

Sshaffer Well said and we all know what you mean but the "other side?" wants them for votes they are trying to buy their vote with your taxes. They don't care what happens to America int he meantime a long as they win elections no matter what the tax paying public wants.......jk

how about one of you folks tell me how the government is going to get it built on the indian reservation? how about some of that stuff without any roads at all and no practical water table for wells. what about americans who are going to refuse access and will need to be taken to court? we are not talking about a jaunt through the prairie of eastern Colorado. those are all problems that can be solved but trump only has 6 more years assuming he gets re-elected. I do not believe a continuous wall is going to happen. a lot of that remote stuff is just going to stay the way it is and continue to be a corridor. we need to solve other problems. like the FAILED war on drugs and government refusal to get serious about companies and people hiring illegals.

We'll give the Indians California.

The US has owned a sixty-foot right-of-way on our side of the southern border since 1907.


Roosevelt Reservation

Spot on!

Trump voters have been called deplorables, But the Dem voters are DEPORTABLES!

Not a continuous wall Danny. Put in strategic places where Border Patrol ( the guys with the boots on the ground), deem it necessary and effective to concentrate illegal entry into areas where increased control presence make apprehension more productive. Sure it's not a cure-all,but where it already is implemented,it has proven over ninety percent effective.

a president does not have the authority to make law through proclamation. it is unconstitutional. Lincoln tried it with the emancipation proclamation. didn't work then either. it took a constitutional amendment to free slaves in union states like Maryland 3 years after the war ended.


mnsota the 90% just moved to a different corridor.

That is the crux of the issue. The opposition leaders have one goal and one goal only. That goal is to secure the swamp in Washington, not the one along the border.

If an oil line can be built in sub arctic areas and under thousands of feet of ocean, then a wall can be built where it should not have to be,
Danny your grasping at straws.
Obama said we all could keep our health programs we liked too, see how that went !

Yes there are more pressing needs but your missing the point here of one against the many, if either wins then the other loses everything, that's why neither wants to give in.

Your seeing the same thing with SS and Medicare, welfare, there is no compromise to work things out, regardless of both sides seeing the need for it.

Demo's know for a fact the people want illegals curbed, they have admitted to the need, they want to control, therefore their need out weighs the need of the many in this country, so its a giant stall.

Rebup's don't wish to support a business back ground President for fear they will be seen as non-political so they behind his back come up with ideas to circumnavigate his shutdown, no one wins, the whole lot need excavated and replaced on both sides, with people who do want this country back where it's supposed to be !

Straws??????????????????? Real problems that will need real solutions. 6 years to solve them

he's only been in office for two years.

and he's fighting BOTH sides of the aisle.