Land mine are controversial and the Pro-illegal factions would just have a field day in court on that one.
Better to use some existing underutilized assets in place of the mines. This proposal would call for using daytime tasked A-10 to patrol the length of the border, while the night time patrol would be tasked to AC-160s ... ROE: free fire zone.
A few years ago, there were two A-10s down on the deck, flying the 175Kv lines across my property every Friday afternoon, heading north.
I assume they started down on the Ohio river at the power plant and followed the wires northward.
I saw them again last Friday.
I wonder if the pilots can see me waving?