Kath wrote:Problem: People we don't want here are showing up because there are jobs and welfare services to be had.
Government solution: Create a huge bureaucracy, spend a ton of money, build ugly walls, hope for the best
Alternate Solution: Remove the jobs and the welfare. Give the jobs to the armed gunmen currently patrolling the borders. Use the savings in welfare to provide tax cuts to legal citizens.
How do you sell your solution though? Facts aren't going to convince the electorate, the wall on the other hand, that plays to their feels and makes it easier to do what you want to do. Stop shitting on the wall part of the plan, it's counter-productive to your goals.
Romney already pitched Self Deportation, that went poorly, The Wall on the other hand, worked like a charm. You are too focused on the fine details of the solution, and not focused enough on how to sell your solution. Trump on the other hand focused on selling himself as the toughest on immigration, and not on the fine details that can come after being elected and it worked so much better.