I've solved the US's illegal immigrant problem-don't build a wall build a canal. Plus it can be used to undercut the Panama Canal as well. Any ships crossing to the US without expression permission can be shot and sunk without question
>>536151819>paid for by MexicoTrump couldn't even get Mexico to pay for a border wall. How do you suggest he forces them to pay for what would be the largest canal project in human history?
Mexico is actually building a rail corridor to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic. Or at least it was, I don't know if they'll ever finish it.https://indiashippingnews.com/mexico-building-a-rail-rival-to-the-panama-canal/
>>536151819shrimple as that!
>>536151898he could, mcconnel blocked itit was called the border adjustment tax, basically a tax on remittancesremittances (money sent back to mexico by migrant workers) made up about 4% of mexico's GDP at peak, so we could either take that cash or (more likely) use it as leverage to demand direct help constructing and manning security permiters at mexico's northern AND SOUTHERN bordersmcconell's a traitor though so now you get to pretend it was just a retarded trumpism that never made any sense
>>536151819we should take over baja, it's a paradise that we deserve
>>536152159The fact Trump couldn't outmaneuver Mitch McConnell while he had the GOP in a vice grip only proves he was an incompetent President even in his first term.
>>536151819Mexico and every country down to the Panama should just be annexed by the US. Don't even make them states, just make them territories.
>>536151819less than a third of illegal immigrants enter via crossing the border like this, how does that "solve" the problem? most legally enter via planes, then get lost in the system and never leave
>>536152259I don't think it was about maneuvering, anon. mcconnel just wants to replace you, and most americans find it easier to accept that the whole idea was a joke instead of grappling with the fact that we could solve it at any time with congressional help and they simply don't want it.
>>536152509>this will only stop 1/3 of the problemoh never mind then, bring on the mexicans
>>536151898Dealmaking
That's obviously an insane project in terms of cubic meters of earth moved, but I wonder sometimes how painless you could make it with automation. Like. It's a ditch. A big ditch, but a ditch. Those gigantic cylindrical boring machines are designed to carve holes through solid rock. Most of that border is fucking dust and sand.Create the Robo-Shai-Hulud that simply digs at ground level and spits everything it consumes out to the sides.
>>536151819>>shot and sunk in canalYou're SMOT!
>>536153192today anon learns about the Bagger 288https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
>>536153192It’s not the digging that’s the problem buddy. It’s the locks and filling the thing with water and all the concrete lining and pumping systems. It would literally be one the largest undertakings in history. I’m for it but yeah you’re talking 20-50yrs and hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars.
>>536153744I'm aware of it, but I mean something more linear in effect.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machineSomething like this but intended to operate on or near the surface to dig a channel.>>536155701The locks are certainly an investment, but I'm pretty sure the water situation handles itself once both sides are connected to the two largest oceans in the world. You're not wrong about scale though.
