Trump’s border wall will be even more useless than previously thought

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A new report on President Trump’s proposed $21.6 billion wall on the border with Mexico is the clearest evidence I have seen so far that Trump’s obsession with undocumented Mexican immigrants is based on false data, and is aimed at stirring up racial panic for political gain.

Until now, most critics of Trump’s planned border wall cited studies showing that about 40 percent of undocumented immigrants have not entered the country by sneaking across the U.S. border with Mexico, but arrived as tourists, and overstayed their visas.

But a new study by the Center for Migration Studies, or CMS, titled «The 2,000 Mile Wall in Search of a Purpose,» shows that the real percentage of visa overstayers is 66 percent, much more than previously thought.

In other words, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants are entering the United States through airports or border checkpoints with valid visas, which would make Trump’s border wall — the centerpiece of his immigration enforcement policy — a monumental waste of money.

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