What’s the cost per mile for the virtual fence?
Get the concrete out, build the wall right, and be done with it.
I'm a hawk on border security but you have to ackowledge the problems with that. Stupid ones, but real. You cross wetlands, you cross habitats for endangered species, you cross Indian reservations, you put a big wall across peoples back yards, etc. Lawsuits for every one of these things. The government would have to have to will to stamp those out somehow, and I dont see how they do that constitutionally (the judicial branch has usurped too much power but I am not in favor of it being ignored either). I think to build a big border wall or even a real live fence, you'd almost need a constitutional ammendment to block the endless court cases.