Where did I say such?
You can never completely seal a border.
But you can get it 90 percent airtight. As opposed to the feeble excuse of border security that is exercised now.
But with a republican congress all you got was a partial fence and more (corrupt) border agents. In what fantasy land do you think those draconian measures required to shut the border are ever going to happen?
Draconian?
How about practical? We are fighting a war against terrorism (or what should be properly labelled as a war against Islamist extremists), but we leave our borders open?
Your option is essentially "more of the same", and we see where that got us.
Another GOPologist chimes in.
It wasn't the fault of borrow-and-spend pubbies driving earmarks to record levels.
It wasn't the fault of corrupt pubbies hoovering in the K-street cash.
Nah, BLAME THE PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVES FOR HAVING THE NERVE to say the pubbie leadership was heading for a fall.
Every border is "open" to those willing to do what it takes to cross it. See: Berlin Wall.
Our problem is that the black market in foreign workers sends herds of them crossing a huge border with no controls whatever, allowing any bad guys to simply mingle in. If we re-wrote our laws allowing foreign workers, and they all came through regular border checkpoints with good ID, then it would be simple to find any terrorists trying to sneak in, because they would be the only ones who *avoid* the border checkpoints.