you're right, of course. So lets say we only stop 80% of the invaders. Is that such a BAD thing? Union labor? Who need union labor? we have the SeaBees and the US Army Corps of Engineers. We have prison labor. We have hundreds of thousands of illegals sitting on their butts in jail. We have contactors who are employing illegals and can be court-ordered to work for nothing as part of their restitution for employing illegals, in lieu of jail or closing them down, using those same illegals prior to deportation. The possibilities are almost endless. Further, the conscripted labor of employers of illegals and their illegal employees, then deportation, would yank the incentive from those who would otherwise be repeat offenders. You just have to think a bit unconventionally to see the possibilities.
Remember the Big Dig...which still isn't finished.
Most likely: you'll stop only 10%, and divert 70% to over-the-beach entry, which the USCG cannot cope with as it is. So,
Union labor? Who need union labor?
Ever hear of the Davis-Bacon Act? Of course you haven't.
we have the SeaBees and the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The Army Corps of Engineers is all civil service and union contract labor.
And the there aren't enough Seabees available for this mission: they're already committed to other taskings that support the US Navy.
We have prison labor.
Prison labor to build something deemed vital for national security...
With all due respect, that is a really foolish idea.
We have hundreds of thousands of illegals sitting on their butts in jail.
And I'm sure they'd do good quality work on the wall intended to keep them out...
Another really foolish idea.
We have contactors who are employing illegals and can be court-ordered to work for nothing as part of their restitution for employing illegals, in lieu of jail or closing them down, using those same illegals prior to deportation.
Except that those contractors never get convicted in the first place--juries consistently refuse to convict people for hiring day laborers.