As a pregnant woman , please explain . <| sep |> Even a small increase in visa fees would pay for the wall . If you had the slightest idea of how much money that wall would potentially cost and what you can get by increasing visa fees , you ' d know that this is a pipe dream . Have you ever looked at the actual geography of the border ? Do you have any idea of how costly and borderline impossible it is to build through mountains , canyons , rivers , and deserts ? Immigration to the US has been in the decline for the past 9 years . The commerce at the border states which is HIGHLY dependent on mexican clients is in a sharp decline due to the exchange rate of USD to MXN . This is all contributing to people simply not going to the US anymore . Everybody I know is spending money in Mexican businesses this Christmas , while the usual was to go to the US and spend it there in past years . And you ' re telling me Mexico would pay billions of dollars to the US via their visa program ? are you sure ? the last time I got my border crossing card it costed around 20 USD and is valid for 10 years . What does a slight increase means ? Are they going to charge me 25 , 50 , or 100 USD for the next ten years so they can build their wall ? Next time same as last time I renew my visa I ' ll get my employer to pay for it , so who will be paying for the wall in the end ? American companies . Are you sure they will get the billions of dollars they need to build AND maintain the wall this way ? It ' s an easy decision for Mexico make a onetime payment of $ 510 billion to ensure that $ 24 billion continues to flow into their country yearafter yearI can ' t overstate how ridiculous this is . They plan to keep track and stop remittances ? All that money is not only going to Mexico , but all over the world . There are other Latin American countries that are way more dependent on remittance money than Mexico . Are they going to make Guatemala , Colombia , Venezuela , etc . pay for the wall as well ? Do you even imagine the logistical nightmare of keeping track of all that money ? Besides , this is the perfect recipe for a black market that is going to cost millions of dollars to fight . Who ' s going to pay for that ? Mexico too ? think again . Cancelling visasDo you think business that hire Mexicans will just accept this quietly ? I have lived and worked in the US and if an American company hired me is because they couldn ' t fill out that position otherwise . I wasn ' t cheaper , or less competent . Actually on the contrary , they spent more money bringing me there than hiring a national , but to them and to me it was worth it . There are TONS of companies hiring qualified people from Mexico . And last time I checked they weren ' t hiring uneducated people to fill out those positions , so every Trump supporter that is complaining that we ' re taking their jobs is just whining . You want those jobs ? how about being more competent ? or studying other languages ? or actually offering the skills those companies need ? Shouting racist bullshit at rallies and sharing memes on the internet won ' t get you hired . Education will . You ' re acting like Trump is going to just wave his hand and make all this happen . Like all the US industry dependent on international trade , the millions of people than didn ' t vote for him , the minorities , and every other detractor he has is going to bow down to him . All in all this is just an example of yet another policy that wasn ' t thought through and was just aimed at getting people talking about him , which it worked and he got elected . Now watch as this proposal goes absolutely nowhere , as will his Muslim ban and other populist crap that people bought from a conman . It ' s pretty sad to see a country I love and has been my second home descend into xenophobia and racism .