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"Fencing in high traffic areas is better than nothing. At least the illegals have to go way out of their way to try and make it into the country."

To expand on that a bit...

Making someone go around a wall may not seem like a very difficult thing to do as we type away at our computers. But most of us have been in the back country at times and have hiked a bit. If we wall off the popular drop points and the smugglers have to go off-road 20 miles or so on the US side (and maybe the same on the Mexican side). It will be MUCH easier for us to find them and much harder for their illegals to make it to the safety of a US highway, to continue their journey north. If they have to do it on foot, they will probably be precluded from doing it during the summer, due to the heat - so they have to do it when cooler and darker (by the way, lighting them up on IR scopes). It simply makes it much harder. And remember, not all of the illegals are like Jose, who, at 5', 1", can singlehandedly carry two sheets of 1/2" plywood to the top of a 2 story house with 45 degree roof lines (as I saw). A lot of these people are pregnant women or otherwise not in the greatest of shape. They will be deterred, and that will only be good.

Do not fall for the desperate liberal argument that was used with SDI, that goes like this:

"If one person gets across with the wall and sets off a chemical weapon, then the wall has failed."

As silly as that sounds, that's what the Dems are left with when it comes to talking points.