Yes, we’ve had the argument about fencing. In particular, you & I had a very productive, polite conversation about it during the primaries. In the end, we simply disagree about the feasibility of building a fence along the Texas-Mexico border, much of which is divided by water. Neither Israel nor China built walls that cut off a very large section of their land from a significant water source. Building a wall between Arizona-Mexico and New Mexico-Mexico makes some sense.
Yup, I remember that now. It was a great conversation.
Honestly, I’d be perfectly satisfied with the military posted at regular (short) intervals and given the FULL authority to shoot on border violation. Solvs a lot of issues but raises others.
People always manage to convince the masses that grannies and dead babies will be the result. That and the government that authorizes it will quickly restrict it to uselessness as they did in putting the NG on desk duty.
So for me, the fence represents not only a physical barrier that would stop the vast majority, but is a permanent structure that cannot be easily made irrelevant by liberal whim. One it’s there, it’s there.
All a mental exercise at this point as Obama is building express lanes, not fences. And so we fall as a country.