Originally Posted by
Stevie Reid
Because it’s an extremely complex problem (and don’t be fooled by Trump’s chat of criminals flooding into the country - he’s just released a huge amount of violent criminals himself).
Populists like Trump always claim that they have easy answers to complex issues, but they never do. The talk of him stopping border crossings overnight is utterly ridiculous.
As Ozy has already pointed out, the border is massive. The amount of resources it would take to cover all of it - either by manning it, or resuming the building of his legendary wall - is huge. And that’s just one of the problems.
Let’s also not forget that he killed at least one bipartisan bill that would have seen a huge amount of money, and human resources allocated to managing the border. He wanted to campaign on a problem, rather than have his own party contribute towards fixing it.
Whatever the numbers are like in the coming weeks, he’ll claim he’s fixed it anyway. He’ll do the same with the economy - he’s spent months claiming it’s dog ****, but when it continues along the same path he’ll claim it’s all down to him.