We really don't need a wall and the solution is very simple. Enforce the laws on the books and go after the employers who hire illegal immigrants. These folks come here because they can make more money and send it home to the family. If the money supply dries up, everyone goes home. Of course, we all know this isn't going to happen because all of those companies are making big profits off of hiring cheap labor, and they use some of those big profits to buy the politicians in DC.
Ok...so the above is stupid on a couple of levels.
1. The current Trump created immigration "crisis" on the southern border is not comprised of mostly working age males. So your point about employers, while true 20 years ago, is false today.
This would also have the added benefit of creating more jobs for citizens.
2. There are roughly 7.4 million job openings in this country. So your point that stopping illegal immigration will create more jobs for citizens.
Wah, but citizens won't work for those wages.
3. Obviously the problem is deeper than this. Americans have gotten fat and lazy we don't want to work hard anymore.
Well duh, would you? With a level playing field, real capitalism will take hold and the wages will go up to meet the market demand.
4. So this is also an incredibly simplistic view. More likely what would happen is that technology would become cheaper and the jobs would just go away. Capitalism wouln't take hold because the workers have no bargaining power. The employer would still pay the same wage because the jobs require no skills. It's really not difficult to understand this if you have paid any attention at all to the labor markets over the past 40 years.
Wah, but then everything will get more expensive.
5. IF and only IF wages went up...which is not likey.
Well not everything, but some things will. That's what happens when prices are kept artificially low by taking advantage of people for so long.
I have tremendous empathy for the poor people of central and Latin America. However, the solution is not as simple as letting them waltz in here by the millions and change the landscape of our country, especially when so many don't come with the intention of integrating themselves into our culture. The solution is to work with them to improve the life in their countries. But, again, the sad truth is that the powerful people of the world don't want that to happen.
This is the only point that you have made that is valid and relevant. The problem is fixed at the source. Not here. Not in Mexico. Why aren't Mexicans streaming across the border any more? Because they can get a job IN Mexico. Because they aren't likely to get murdered in their sleep or be forced to watch while their wives and daughters are assaulted.
Oh...and since you could not bring yourself to type the words...the US HAD a policy of aiding the home countries of these people. Our current inept, incompetent and unfit president eliminated those policies and removed the aid.
For those too stupid to understand, Trump's rhetoric and Trump's policies have been instrumental in creating the current "crisis". His "solution", to force Mexico to do things or building a wall, are obviously wrong as they does nothing, nothing at all to get at the root of the problem.