On Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 the “angry cheeto” signed an executive order laughably titled “BORDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IMPROVEMENTS”, calling for the construction of an “…impassable physical barrier…” along the entirety of the southern border of the United States, hiring an additional 5,000 Border Patrol Agents and several other rather poorly conceived ideas…

First, I recommend reading the Washington Post article by Jerry Markon and Lisa Rein, then scanning the eleven page executive order itself found here for context before continuing. I’ll wait.

What’s the length of the border between the United States and Mexico?

It’s about 2,000 miles, (or 3,200 kilometers). Do the math – that’s 2.5 agents per mile!

Oh, right, not all of those freshly-minted agents will be out there dutifully manning their assigned post, anxiously scanning the horizon for signs of bad hombres attempting to surreptitiously slip into the United States. This executive (b)order is nothing but a pile of isolationist, nationalistic clap-trap, if you ask me…

Even Republicans know who – or more precisely what – constitutes about half of the group of so-called ‘illegal immigrants’ in the United States. It’s people overstaying their visas. That’s right, legally documented citizens of other countries, legally entering the United States, then staying longer than the visa they were legally granted allowed for.

Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany and Italy are the top five offending nationalities, according to 2016 statistics referenced in a report by the Pew Research Center. So if Canada is at the top of that list, what are we doing about the northern border of the United States? I ask this silly question only to highlight the complete and utter fallacy of the premise behind Mr. Trump’s ridiculous publicity stunt on Wednesday, (now bleeding over into Thursday).

To be clear, immigration reform is a serious concern for American citizens, but the solution is not going to come in the form of Trump’s version of The Maginot Line.