[bayourod]

"So is Israel, and their wall is working."

Israel let's anyone pass through a gate who has a permit. A permit takes about twelve hours to get. Any fence works if you have enough gates.

If we enact a guest worker program that allows for a sufficient number of foreign workers to come over legally to satisfy the labor demands of our expanding economy then we wouldn't have laborers jumping the border illegally. This would free up our border guards to concentrate on drug smugglers and gangsters.

[NJ_gent]

"If we enact a guest worker program that allows for a sufficient number of foreign workers to come over legally to satisfy the labor demands of our expanding economy then we wouldn't have laborers jumping the border illegally."

We have a visa program in place which allows those with jobs waiting for them to enter this country legally. If that program needs to be expanded or modified, then that is an option. What we do not need is a program to legalize the law-breaking, sovereignty violating criminals who've come over so far. That simply encourages more to follow suit. As for why we have laborers jumping the border in massive numbers, it's because certain greedy employers want to pay slave wages to people they consider sub-human. Desperate individuals from Mexico find those slave wages acceptable, as well as the risk involved in crossing the border illegally. It doesn't make any of it right in the slightest, and it dramatically impairs our ability to secure our borders. The more people we have pouring anonymously across our borders, the better chance there is for those wishing us harm to slip across with them. We need to know exactly who is trying to enter this country, and we need to know where they are at all times and enforce the provisions of their visas.

They could find plenty of other people to do the work, but not at a fraction of minimum wage for 12 hours with no bathroom break.