Illegal immigration is an evolving issue. Your #1 may be a factual statement, but it does not address the caravans sometimes reaching in the thousands that are coming here knowing all they have to do is bring a child with them.
"You made a good point, here is a completely unrelated statement." Okay. The point is you are talking about illegal immigration as a big problem, and not even addressing the main cause of illegal immigration. It is entirely disingenuous.
#2. You're right. The cartel has tunnels under our border today. Don't you think it is easier for Israeli agents to search for and destroy more tunnels because they don't have to use more manpower to fight the Palestinians crossing over a small barrier that works for dogs, not people?
This was in response to your "history shows walls work". History shows mankind can easily defeat a wall.
#3. We're not building a wall to thwart an invasion of armies. Just to maintain control over who enters and where people enter. Not really comparable.
Both are walls for keeping people from crossing a border, they both serve the same point
Anyone who downplays how bad it is at the border is being willfully ignorant. The same people who complain about the conditions the migrants are subjected to ignore the fact that they are enduring those conditions because of how bad the situation is. I choose to believe the people actually dealing with the crisis than the politicians and news networks that have agendas to protect.
Except I have a large amount of family living in Texas near the border, and have visited the area way more than you I'm guessing. Are you picturing some sort of warzone near the border? Illegal mexican gangs roaming the streets murdering law abiding citizens on sight? Spoiler alert: America near the border isn't much different than America anywhere else. I'm not willfully ignorant of anything, I'm speaking to the actual reality on the ground.
We need to change our asylum laws and start separating children from adults until they have DNA tests that prove they are related.
Yeah, we need to separate MORE familys. JFC.
These caravans are not just an American immigration crisis, they are a humanitarian crisis. There is no telling how many children have been taken from their families to be used to get into America. How many of them that were used for far more sinister purposes. How many of them were sold to the cartel in return for them to smuggle people into the U.S. It is a major crisis whether you want believe it or not.
What in the world are you basing this on?
"I have no factual numbers, so I'll just make a baseless claim saying that there is no way to count how many children have been kidnapped."
Like I said, I am all for slowing/stopping illegal immigration, but there are bigger issues facing America right now. And there are better ways to do it than building an expensive ass wall. Start arresting people employing illegal immigrants and see how quickly the problem solves itself.
