To you and All who believe we could build a wall easily, and those who note there is a wall around the white house.
We couldn't build a wall around New Orleans in 9 months, but you think we can build a wall around our country in a year and a half?
This isn't some 4-foot rock wall. In order to be effective, it has to be better than the wall at the White House. That wall just stops people long enough for the guards to shoot them, and people get over that wall all the time.
The wall you would need to stop people without guards would be much harder than building a levee. It would be expensive, ugly, and take a long time and a lot of materials.
And it wouldn't stop immigrants from using hot air balloons. What, you say, they never used hot air balloons -- that's because they didn't have to.
No wall will help if you don't also put guards on, or use electronic monitoring. And if you do those things, you don't really need a wall if you have a dozen miles of desert.
People break out of prisons.
Israel's wall is mostly unmanned, and very effective.
It has been put up in the space of a few years.
The cost to put an Israeli-style wall on the Mexican border would be about $8 billion, and a lot of money would be saved.
Sure, SOME people would get over or around any barrier.
But not 3 million a year. A few thousand a year.
Resisting the wall doesn't make sense.
The BorderBots want it so badly, and it's not very expensive. It might just work very, very well, as Israel's wall has worked.
So, why all the resistance?
and people get over that wall all the time.
How about building a wall using a chain gang of captured illegal aliens? Should be plenty of those available to do the jobs "Americans won't do".