We're already paying a couple of thousand of people to patrol the border. Seems to me that the wall would make the job a lot easier and less expensive to patrol the border. Assign one person per ten miles for each of three shifts, and that's only 600 border guards per day. That would allow each guard to make two to to three passes an hour or more over the ten mile stretch, and while breaches will happen, busting through, under, or over the wall is something the border guards ought to be able to discover and plug pretty quickly.
I'm not arguing that we shouldn't build a wall. I'm only saying that building a wall means little if we don't address the reasons that people want to come here.
No more anchor babies, all caught illegals barred from ever visiting the US or becoming citizens, and stiff fines for all buisinesses that knowingly hire illegals. The *plus* amped up border patrol and wall is the only thing that'll really stem this tide.
I think we could bring the Democrats on board on this one! Let's propose a wall-building bill that includes the following: 1) all labor must be union members only 2) 100% of the contracts must be given to firms owned by women, minorities, and gays 3) all equipment and materials used to build the wall must be manufactured in the United States, by American companies, with 100% union labor 4) all transportation of materials and workers to the construction sites shall be via union trucking companies only and 5) all Federal anti-kickback laws shall be suspended with respect to this project.
Shouldn't be too hard to get the votes for this don't ya think?