Jeb is (once again) entirely wrong.
You don’t have to have fencing on every mile of the border for walls/fencing to be effective. Barriers along the most heavily trafficked routes will cut those routes off, reducing the flow of illegal aliens. Fencing and walls can also be used to create choke points, forcing the Coyote traffickers into narrow access points where border agents can more easily intercept them. That’s a tactic that’s worked for thousands of years.
I also disagree that it would have to cost a trillion dollars or whatever other hooey his pitching. If securing fencing ended up costing $10 million per mile, which would be an astoundingly high figure, then 2000 miles of fencing (and we wouldn’t need that much) would run around $20 billion, if my math is correct. Still a bargain compared to what illegal immigration is costing. I’d even argue we could add things like manned outposts and expanding the fleet of off-road vehicles to cover the rugged areas without approaching anything like the numbers Jeb is spouting.
This is to replace my post #46 which called you to task in the strongest possible terms for posting such trip as “You don’t have to have fencing on every mile of the border for walls/fencing to be effective”.
Your post reeks GOPe patronizing.
You are so out of touch with mainstream Americans it stinks.
We have waited impatiently for 30 years to have to have The Wall built.
Time after time your ilk patted us on the head and promised us a wall.
Now we have a man, a real man, who is going to push the little worms aside and build a wall.
GO POUND SAND, and take you obscene words and stuff them.
Physical barriers are just force multipliers. Agree, it is not necessary to have fences across the entire border. You put up double fencing where it makes sense.