[A CA Guy]

From the day it is started, I believe they could easily complete a wall of that magnitude in under a year and a half.
Plus for every section of wall erected, you then need 1/4th of the people needed to patrol that area compared to areas with no walls.

Illegals clutter our roads with non-insured autos, clutter our jails now with people who have visited violence upon our citizens. (They are a 50% increase in our California prisons).
They take homes away from disabled military who would get subsidized housing because illegals with a citizen baby get priority.
Their illegal children cost us many billions as millions of illegal children cost us an additional 14k each.

WE CAN'T AFFORD TO NOT HAVE A WALL AND SECURED BORDER.

[CharlesWayneCT]

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.