Oh my goodness Trump sounded reasonable

Donald Trump has already won plaudits for sounding like a grown-up when he addressed the nation from the Oval Office. Instead of the much-anticipated rant against the Democrats and loads of wild statements about the United States being invaded by robbers, rapists and terrorists across the Mexico border, he laid out a reasonable argument for The Wall, and pointed out that until he turned up as president the Democrats had been all for a stronger barrier across the border. I'm not sure Nancy Pelosi and her sidekick, Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, listened properly to Trump's address because they came across as stubborn and unrelenting in their opposition to The Wall rather than tell the voters that the Democrats would do everything in their power to get some sort of compromise deal on the table so that the 800,000 federal workers could get paid once again. They had no Plan B, other than rejecting the Trump proposal out of hand. That may be harsh politics at play here but I doubt whether it was the sensible approach to take. Pelosi says The Wall is immoral which is a strange adjective to choose, and doesn't really bear scrutiny. Unaffordable, unnecessary, a waste of money. She could have chosen these sort of words but the overall impression from their joint address in answering the president was that they are never going to let Trump build any sort of wall or barrier or fence on their watch. Whether The Wall has any sort of merit it's difficult to say. I doubt that the flow of heroin going into the US from Mexico will be reduced if there's a 30ft wall in the way on the border. The vast percentage of the heroin comes over the border by truck or other vehicle or by plane or by boat. So that's not a good justification for spending taxpayers' money on constructing a wall or barrier. But it's probably true to say that a 1,000-mile 30ft wall/steel barrier along the border would have an impact on the volume of illegal immigrants trying to break into the US of A. It would be a statement from the White House that says, "we don't want you unless you are a genuine refugee/asylum seeker". The UK has its own wall fr this very purpose. It's called the English Channel. Trump's reasonable tone and his emphasis on welcoming proper immigrants to his country gave him the edge on the night while Pelosi and Schumer just looked like tired politicians with nothing positive to say. Well well well.