The End of the Nations

The presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested building a wall on the U.S.- Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants from entering the U.S.

An alternative to this would be to hire more border patrol officers.  For instance guard towers could be placed every 1/10th of a mile along the 2000 mile border, thus requiring an extra 20,000 officers/ shift.  To cover all three shifts plus relief officers for sickness and vacation would require perhaps a total of 100,000 officers.  Salaries and benefits would cost $100,000/officer.Totaled up, this would cost $10 billion/year.  Part of this cost would perhaps be offset by the decreased cost of the "War on Drugs".

This seems like a large amount of money, but as a part of the annual expenditures of the government it is small.  But this will not be considered either.

Other plans surely exist, but would just as surely be demonized by the media and liberal establishment.

The real problem is an increasingly hostile attitude to the existence of the nation-states, of which the United States is one; i.e.a very significant part of the populace believes that illegal immigration is not a problem because all immigrants should be legal.

Questions:  should " illegal immigrants"
1. Pay no taxes
2. Be given free health care, education, and housing?
3.  Be allowed to vote?

If so, why should American citizens
1. Pay taxes?
2. Pay for health care,education, and housing?
3.  Be allowed to vote?

It seems self-evident that all persons were not created equal.