"People will try to tell you Operation Gatekeeper did not work. Try Googling "Operation Gatekeeper" and you will find a bunch of OBL's screaming because it worked so well, illegals can no longer cross there and no must go through the desert."
Not very many people ever die in the desert, and there hasn't been an increase in the number of deaths.
The illegals were crossing where I live (rural San Diego) long before Gatekeeper, and they'll continue crossing long after. It's because they can hop on the Sunset Route freights (formerly Southern Pacific, now Union Pacific) and get past the border patrols easily.
Perhaps you would have a little more compassion for the people that are dying in the desert trying to cross after you read this.
229 of these people are listed and the fiscal year is not even over yet. This goes from November to November and it's only thru July.
The borders must be closed for their sake as well as ours.
http://www.derechoshumanosaz.net/deaths.php4