The problem is the pols would say we already have a “wall,” so we don’t need to build a real one. That would mean that when the next Dem gets in, we would essentially have an open border again. The Dems are getting more and more radical, and it is very unlikely they would keep the electrification, the monitors, the guards, or even replace the cut up barbed wire. So we’d be left with a little chain-link fence a 5-year-old could easily climb. We need something that will last for hundreds of years and be intimidating and very challenging to climb even if no one is protecting the border.
What I am saying is: put up the barbed wire quickly and then build the permanent wall.