[RedEyeJack]

In open arid terrain like the southwest and like we saw in Kuwait, the U.S. Military built 20 ft berms just by scraping up the dirt/sand in the area. If we started back 1/2 mile from the border I am sure we could create such a barrier at minimal expense. For the labor that could not be done with dozers and loaders we could establish temporary camps to house healthy illegal alien male that we apprehended. Put them to "work" for the cost of feeding them and when they were done take them back to the border and send them home...

Time to get serious.

[captainblacksmith]

The claim that a fence could not help is ridiculous. The project is not just a fence that is built then abandoned to watch what happens. The fence is a tool to affect the busy migration corridors, perhaps focusing traffic into tighter zones easier to manage by the Border Patrol.

The biggest obsticle to this project is how insulting it is to Mexicans. This needs to be politically-correctified by emphasizing how it will raise the wages of Mexicans already in the US, by calling it one of these:
Fence of Empowerment
Enfranchisement Monument
Impenetrable Wall of Enfranchisement
Freedom Wall
US/Mexico Adhesive Zone