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Honestly, I don’t think we’re going to be able to that really either. If we build a fence we’ll probably stop a lot of peasant worker types from coming over. It would help with the illegal alien problem. But, we’re never going to have an impenetrable border. Huge quantities of contraband make it through border crossing checkpoints everyday hidden in private vehicles or big trucks or secreted on the persons of pedestrian smugglers walking through the checkpoints. A lot of the terrorists who have come before came in legally. Terrorists are still going to be able to make it in legally, and they’ll still be able to sneak across our borders as well, especially if they are well funded. They could come in with fake ID’s or hidden in a load of goods. They could come in by boat in the middle of the night, or by plane, or through a tunnels, or over the fence or through it. Somehow or another if people want in this country bad enough, they’ll figure out a way to do it. I think it is naive to believe we can completely secure our borders such that drugs or terrorists cannot get through. We have thousands and thousands of miles of border. We do billions and billions of dollars worth of trade every year with our neighbors and other nations throughout the world. Our ports are busy, our border crossings are busy with huge amounts of goods and people coming in every day. It’s always going to be possible for undesirable people and contraband to come in.