A House divided cannot stand

[ZNPaaneah]

Since this wall has been a major focus lets address crime and gun violence first.

If you are concerned about crime in the US, even though it has been falling steadily then I would agree with focusing on gun violence. You could argue that cyber crime is a bigger concern, but it is a much bigger concern to the financial services industry (banking, credit cards and insurance). This behemoth is doing a lot to shut down this threat on their own.

If your concern is gun violence then I think it is perfectly reasonable to focus on gang violence. They are responsible for 80% of gun related homicides. So, major on the majors and minor on the minors. There are about 2,000 gang related homicides each year in the US. Although this is just an estimate it may be that 13% of those are committed by illegal aliens, most of whom have already been deported at least once.

This 13% may seem like a minor issue, but if you consider a gang to be a multinational corporation with the headquarters in another country (Mexico, Russia, Ireland, etc) then these repeat offenders who are committing violent crimes and have already been deported previously could be viewed as terrorists. Suppose instead of deporting them the second time we send them to Guantanamo Bay or another facility (Albania, one of the Arab nations, etc). If this was done with a view towards being economical you could contract out these particular prisoners for less than $35,000 a year. If we are estimating 260 people like this we are talking about $9 million per year. This would be far cheaper than the wall. It would take 555 years to spend $5 billion. Also this would be much more specific, targeting the true criminals who are truly the problem.

Also, this would have a very big impact on our gangs. All of them have very significant affiliations with entities outside the US. If you can cut off that link, it is like severing a major artery.

Now it seems to me anyone claiming to be for law and order would support this. Since the patriot act has already been passed the laws are in place to do this. No one could object to the cost since it is a tiny fraction of the wall which would not guarantee the removal of these 230 very bad guys. There is nothing racist since IRA, Russian, Asian, and Mexican gangs would all be prosecuted and treated the same.