Comment by xFandanglex on 24/01/2025 at 20:02 UTC

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View submission: What are the reasons millions of undocumented immigrants were allowed in the US? I don't recall ever hearing the most obvious reasons by politicians.

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I'm not entirely sure you're being serious, but I'm going to assume you are for the sake of my response. Time, money, and manpower are the important things to look at here. It took more than 2300 years to build the Great Wall of China. I have no idea what the cost was in monetary value, but I'm sure we can all imagine that it would be immense, same with the man power involved. Sure, we have machinery today, but we're still talking about an insane amount of human effort to build a 2000 mile stone wall.

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Comment by [deleted] at 24/01/2025 at 20:10 UTC

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We built the transcontinental railroad in 5 years almost entirely by hand.