The proposed 700 miles of barrier would cover nearly 40% of the entire border. It would require them to go literally hundreds of miles out of their way through some of the most forbidding terrain in North America. The rest would be monitored by sensors to track movement and initiate a response.
It's not a full 1,700 mile barrier, but it will reduce illegal border crossings a great deal.
Your thoughts, MI?
It covers 33%. And people will still go around it.
It would require them to go literally hundreds of miles out of their way through some of the most forbidding terrain in North America.
Forbidding to U.S. couch potatos who never, ever, get off their butts, maybe. I'm now on the wrong side of 60, have been severely injured several times, am not a superstar athlete by any stretch of the imagination, and I can (and do) still walk that "forbidding" terrain.
All they need to do is get to a road, and the coyotes' U.S. operatives will pick them up and transport them along.
The rest would be monitored by sensors to track movement and initiate a response.
Respond with what resources? They have sensors here in east San Diego County, and the illegals are always moving through here without ever seeing a border patrol agent. I've called it in every time I've spotted them--they tell me, "Sorry, we don't have anyone available."
The U.S.-Mexican border is 2,100 miles. A 700-mile wall will only keep out the ones less intelligent than the people who think that a 700-mile fence will keep many people out.
Do it all the way: a 2,100-mile fence, plus a lot of border patrol agents along the entire 2,100-mile border.