That fence also includes floodlights, patrol roads, motion sensors, horseback patrols, ATV patrols, towers, UAV patrols and one of the highest concentration of guards in the nation. Still laborers breach it at an estimated rate of over 145,000 per year.
That's only a 62 mile stretch. We have 7 thousand miles of land borders and many more times that in wet borders.
Anyone who thinks we can build a wall around America that will keep out laborers is childish. And anyone who would want to has other problems.
They don't "breach it", Israel allows laborers in, but they pass through the checkpoints.
Anyone who thinks we can build a wall around America that will keep out laborers is childish. And anyone who would want to has other problems.
What is insane and childish to think that this country can survive with open borders.
We will build the fence where is is needed. We will have sensors and cameras where they are needed. It will cost a few billion dollars, cheaper than the typical gulf war.
How much do you think it will cost?
First it will reduce the flow to a trickle, that will make it easier to pick them up. Then they will stop, because it won't be worth the trouble anymore.
"Annual arrests of illegal immigrants in the fenced sections have dropped to 3,000 from about 25,000 over the past three years. It's so hard to get across that people aren't trying, say officials with Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, part of the Department of Homeland Security."
Crime drops off
"Violent crimes in that area have virtually come to a stop," San Diego police Sgt. Juan Gonzales says. "Where once there were hundreds of illegal immigrants, and they were preyed upon by smugglers and bandits, now we almost never see them or get reports of violent crimes at all."