Good morning. This statement fails to consider the economic impact of closing the border wall for a considerable length of time, however. Nor does POTUS suggest any actual time frame. Those are key considerations when making these threats.
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For example, a 2011 simulation by the nation's first homeland security center (aka CREATE Homeland Security Center at the Uni of Southern Calif.) found that if the border wall was shut down for a year, imports are slashed by 95% while GDP plummets 48%.
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Clarification needed: If *ALL* borders were shut down for a year, not just the southern border. Study can be found here: documentcloud.org/documents/5668…
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