215 miles of border wall do a lot of good BUT must placed in the most useful areas. IOW no screwing around with placement. Do it right!
“215 miles of border wall do a lot of good BUT must placed in the most useful areas.”
That is a strong point of the Trump Program - they are addressing the most important miles, regardless of how hard they are. About 100 miles in the Rio Grande Valley and the urban areas along the border (San Diego, Calexico, Yuma, Nogales, El Paso and Laredo) are the great bulk of the traffic.
What they reported for this $5 billion (if we get it), along with the previous $3.2 billion, would pretty effectively button up those areas.
While there would still be a lot of smaller towns to pass through along the border, it is harder to escape notice there. Also, smaller towns can’t support large caravans, and they would have a more difficult time disappearing on the American side in those more rural locations. So we will be strengthened against the caravan/mob rush tactic.
If we get the $5 billion, it is going to have a transformative effect on migrant flows, but organized crime cartels and the Democratic Party (I may be redundant there) will still be able to adapt, if policies and enforcement are not also strengthened.