[Borax Queen]

I don’t think most people want an actual massive wall along 1,000 miles, since enforcing the laws and not handing out massive welfare to criminals should be enough. The borderlands are a lovely area, or at least, used to be. A virtual wall, with certain parts reinforced with actual walls/fences, should work.

[glock rocks]

What?

Build the damned wall. All of it. Now!

I’ve had my fill of “we’re going to”

Build the wall. Now.

[ByteMercenary]

I agree with your premise. A wall should consist of some physical and some legal components. There are places where the border is flat and easily traversed. In such places a physical impediment is useful. Add to that some real consequences for employers who employ illegals say $50,000 per illegal per day for any illegal found in a factory or at a job site. Also no welfare of any kind to non-citizens. Unfortunately that leaves crime as the only means to survive for the most hard-headed. In that case allow any invaders with only two choices: leave on your own two feet or you will leave in a box.

[cmj328]

The virtual wall doesn't work. There needs to be a big scary thing there that makes people throw up their hands, give up, and try to get in legally at a port of entry.

Otherwise we'll continue to have hundreds or thousands of dear people dying in the desert every year, not to mention the funding of the coyote industry and the routine rapes of women and girl migrants.

[BobL]

“I don’t think most people want an actual massive wall along 1,000 miles, since enforcing the laws and not handing out massive welfare to criminals should be enough. The borderlands are a lovely area, or at least, used to be. A virtual wall, with certain parts reinforced with actual walls/fences, should work.”

Someone much earlier said that the Wall was a metaphor for securing the border...that about summed it up. If it’s effective and if it’s a wall where people have easy access to it, then that would be enough.