We simply should mine the border region with numerous warning signs in the uninhabited areas. Once a few smugglers and illegals were blown to smithereens, that would end the border crossings quickly.First question: how are you going to plant said mines QUICKLY?
Second question: after the inevitable "blue-on-blue" mining incident, how are you going to sustain the program? The one thing you can be sure of is that, for various reasons, some of the warning signs are going to disappear.
Third question: after the local criminal element digs up a few mines and starts using them for criminal activities, how are you going to sustain the program?
Fourth question: now that you've made seaborne smuggling of illegal aliens economically profitable...how are you going to stop the illegal aliens?
On a more serious note, no, I do not want to mine our own borders. It was just to encourage more discussion of this issue and make a point. We could close our borders with our military if our goverment had the will to. So no, we can't mine the borders and won't. We won't use our military because the industrialists and W won't allow it. So when we do finally have a number of terr attacks that kills 100,000 plus, all I am going to do is say I told you so. Then maybe we'll get serious about protecting our citizens. But I doubt it. Most Americans are to PC to do anything about it even then.