I want:
1. A road along the entire border, navigable by Jeep or similar vehicle, with triple strand concertina wire barriers 100-200 yards on each side monitored frequently for vandalism. That can be done very quickly and will immediately slow the crossings of illegals. We must secure the border so illegals cannot easily enter (or reenter after being deported).
2. At least one additional barrier beyond those double barbed wire obstacles, whether a fence, a wall, or something else physical to prevent unauthorized passage. We must secure the border so illegals cannot easily enter (or reenter after being deported).
3. Pregnant illegals who are not immediately deported should be held outside the United States so their anchor babies will not be US citizens.
4. All illegals who committed the crime of entering our country illegally or of overstaying after legal entry and then committed any other crime while in our country should be deported. No exceptions. Those deported should be permanently barred from any legal reentry or path to citizenship. Any state or local government with a “sanctuary” policy should be barred from receiving federal funds; and illegals who access social services, including schools, should be required to be reported to ICE.
5. All illegals who committed the crime of entering our country illegally in the past two years, and thus have not been here long enough to have stronger ties here than at home, should be deported. In other words, no new growth in our illegal population. Those deported should be permanently barred from any legal reentry or path to citizenship. No exceptions.
6. Once those are taken care of, we should deport the remaining illegals (or better, encourage them to go home on their own). Allow those who go home on their own to apply for legal reentry and legal status. Those deported should be permanently barred from any legal reentry or path to citizenship - again, no exceptions. For those who go home on their own, we should take into account in their visa applications any past history of productive work in the United States, English proficiency if they learned our language while here, and any record of living here without using welfare and other social services.
7. The only way for illegals to gain legal status should be to apply from their home countries for legal entry after voluntarily going home. Note: We also need to fix legal immigration so that the number of immigrants approved by Congress and by the President can obtain visas in a reasonable time to come here, and they can do it from the countries we wish to receive immigrants from, after thorough background checks.
How are they going to deal with tunneling under it?
Whoever Trump puts directly in charge of building the wall, all they need do is look at the California barrier. It was pushed through by Rep. Duncan Hunter (senior) years ago and reduced our illegal traffic by over 95% and why SE Arizona became the center of illegal immigration in the West.
It only runs from the Pacific to just east of San Diego. The mid and eastern part of CA border is far removed from the border with very very few staging areas for the coyotes. They need staging areas (towns) for the illegals to disappear into. That's why I have repeatedly said we don't need it along the entire border, except maybe for Texas with all their border towns.
When I traveled from San Diego to Tombstone to be a Minuteman, I was amazed at the how far the I-8 stretched across total wasteland from Yuba to Phoenix. Without small army sized logistics, there is no way anyone could survive that desert crossing. Look at a map of the West and you'll see.
Being an anti-illegal alien advocate since since the late '80's, I've always believed that penalizing employers would cut down the attraction for jobs. The I-9 form that I had to submit has been been toothless for years because of little to no enforcement. Without investigations and "raids", it's just another hassle for small employers.