BY FROMA HARROP We who follow immigration policy closely know that the wall is a dumb idea. Closing much of the government over it is dumber still. Why is the wall a dumb idea? It would be expensive. It’d be unsightly. It’d be environmentally destructive. More to this point, it’d be ineffective. First off, an estimated 40% of those here illegally arrived as tourists, as students or on other business but have overstayed their visas. […]

If Trump Really Wanted To Enforce Immigration, He’d Open The Government
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