There’s a lot of places you can cross over easily, with no checkpoint for up to 100 miles inland.
“There’s a lot of places you can cross over easily, with no checkpoint for up to 100 miles inland.”
The $25 billion over five years, represents a detailed program to develop “Operational Control” of the whole border. After analysis, that is what they came up with, given a scenario of relatively unconstrained resources.
It would be about 1,100 miles of hard barrier infrastructure (replacing almost all of what previously existed), thousands of more permanent personnel positions, and some pretty dramatic new technology (sensors, drones, cameras and artificial intelligence monitoring). Beyond five years, robots become a big factor.
As a practical matter, laws and policies need to change to control the immigrant flow, and to assimilate new arrivals - but it would be possible to control the border during a two term Presidency.