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Democrats, Give Trump a Wall!
If a symbolic presidential victory can ransom Dreamers, it's a price worth paying.
Forget the hard stuff.
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Someone, somewhere, somehow is going to have to give President Donald Trump a piece of wall to stand in front of. It might as well be the Democratic congressional leaders Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
The wall is not a good idea; it's a colossal boondoggle in the making. That's why many Republicans as well as Democrats oppose the president's signature initiative. Walls are ill-suited to much of the geography of the U.S.-Mexico border, and much of that geography happens to be owned by private citizens who do not want a 30-foot eyesore destroying their property. Engineering problems will probably prove less daunting than the legal sort. Both pale before another ingenious threat: ladders.