And you're going to magically dig up the $70 billion without a peep of protest from the Democrats, or the states that receive that money.
Confiscated smuggler's boats are auctioned off all the time. What are you talking about?
Yup, they're auctioned all the time. But those boats are a tiny fraction of the total number used in smuggling. The Coast Guard thinks that they stop as many as one in ten--and that includes the ones who get into trouble and send a distress call, and those are a sizable minority of their total seizure count. And more vessels engaged in the smuggling trade would get more drugs AND illegals through Coast Guard patrols.
Anybody trying to steal any mines will wind up dead.
Please explain why they would end up dead. Like I said, we seem to value the lives of our combat engineers, so US mines don't have the array of antitampering devices that other countries (like China) use--and the instructions for handling, placing, arming, disarming, and removing those mines are readily available from Uncle.
Like they'll just be out there where anyone can just stroll up and pick them up.
That's how landmines are used. They're buried in the ground (and not very deeply) and just left there.
Mr. Charles had a habit of stealing US landmines in Vietnam. He was quite successful at it, too. Heck, he stole them from US firebase defense perimeters. I don't think you can put enough firebases on the US-Mexican border to ensure that every mine is within small arms range, unless you want to go back to the idea of having a few hundred thousand troops on post at any one moment.
Enforce the laws we have on the books against employing illegals.
Kick illegal aliens off the welfare and other social services rolls.
Give all illegal aliens 90 days to sell everything, they don't want to take with them, and return to their home countries. Confiscate every last nickel from any illegal alien apprehended in the country after that.
Once they're on the other side of the wall and there's no jobs or social welfare programs for them here, they'll stay out.
Yes, we'll still need the wall to prevent the trade in human slaves, stolen cars, drugs and terrorist and Mexican military border incursions, etc..
As far as the mines go, the technology is now available to make landmines do whatever we want them to do. The mines we use now could take advantage of the new technology that we've developed since the Vietnam War, 30-years-ago.
Those that were against 'Operation Desert Storm' used all kinds of Vietnam 'war stories' and flawed analogies that didn't apply anymore.
Your Vietnam landmine analogies aren't valid anymore, either.