Then what are you going to do? My uncle was the sheriff of Hudspeth County, right along the border east of El Paso. In his day there was very little movement across the border. You mostly worried about the occasional rabid dog straying over.
But today that’s all changed. Cartels are smuggling drugs and people across into Hudspeth. That border is now dangerous. If not a fence, what would you do?
The drug cartel's will tunnel and I understand the dangers but ceding the Rio Grande to the Mexicans is not something I am willing to do.
Truth be told, the actual fix for this is a mile wide demilitarized zone with a fence on their side of the Rio Grande, but of course that would mean war.