Hey but one more thing I’d like to bring up to all of you fellow freepers, and newcomers is this, eminent domain is a big big deal in Texas, almost 100% of the land in Texas is privately owned.
There will be a Bundy Big time thing when it happens to take ranchers land where their cows drink from the Rio Grande.
Yes, we could easily get an Israeli fence/wall from the Pacific to El Paso, but once you come to Texas it will not be that easy taking their lands and cutting their cows off from water.
Water for cattle and other ag uses can easily be pumped underground from the Rio Grande river.
Build the wall!
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The other major factor is the recognized border along most of the Rio Grande is the middle
of the river. A wall/fence will be built in some semblance of a straight line rather than a
meandering line following the crooks/turns of the river. A wall can be built but will
take some time. JMO.