Yes. Threats from the southern border can no longer be ignored. Threats from illegal alien invasion, enemy terrorist groups, Mexican criminal cartels, human trafficking and drug trade.
“Threats from the southern border can no longer be ignored. Threats from illegal alien invasion, enemy terrorist groups, Mexican criminal cartels, human trafficking and drug trade.”
Clearly a threat but more so a clear and ongoing danger. Border is our perimeter and it’s unsecured and undefended. That said, a Southern Wall will become some cross-breed between a Maginot Line and Berlin Wall. A wall is an example of a solution becoming a greater and compounded problem. It may well become known as “’Someone’s’ Folly”.
Strong diplomatic-economic action against Mexico and neighbors further south is a more realistic action.
One place to start is remittances - legal wire transfers of money. In 2017 remittances to Mexico alone totaled $26B. Whether earned off/on the books, it was money earned in the US but not saved nor reinvested here. In a somewhat lesser period, Mexico’s substantial oil export industry earned $18B.
In some variation of “doing the work that Americans won’t do”, remittances are “the US doing for Mexican’s what their government won’t”.