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.
Simple solution to the river issue. Annex 1/2 mile on the other side of the river and build the wall there. Tell Mexico to pound sand if they complain. Mexico’s biggest fear is that 20 million of their citizens would return home and end up unemployed. America’s leaky border is what prevents Mexico from having to make serious decisions about their own economy. Just imagine how nice it would be for you if America could export their millions of unemployed/welfare cases north of the border and make we Canadians pay for to support them. You’d solve your fiscal crisis in about 12 months. It would actually be cheaper for America if your border patrol picked up illegals and took them to the Canadian border, rather than sending them back home to sneak in again.