Will a wall on the border reduce immigration?

Kathleen H

Maybe a little, but lot's of land mines are the answer.

American Girl

I think some troops standing there with M-16's fully loaded would be better!

kevzvixen

walls can fall
walls can crumble
walls can be drilled into

therefore, i believe a wall on the border would be a complete waste of money and time.

STIFLE IT LIBS 2

I agree. That's why i say we need land mines and snipers to back it up.

keepitsafe 2think

guess what, you can search the boats and turn illegals away! Here in America, the type of wall they are putting up includes sensors so that attempted crossings can be thwarted!!

dze

jeez . the UK to? everbody is getting a wall ...u, us, israel ...prison planet comes to mind ...

petrel

I think you are right but will it really happen.

Virgo

The 20 foot high wall along the U.S-Mexico border will prevent the illegal immigration.

Jack C

I think you are right.

The border fence initiative was merely election-year window dressing. It didn't help the republicans, and it won't significantly reduce illegal immigration.

capu

It won't accomplish anything except draining the treasury.

Will a wall on the border reduce ILLEGAL immigration?

After the first 10 miles of border fence was completed,
arrests of illegal immigrants
trying to cross the San Diego border sector plummeted
from about 25,000 per year to 3,000 per year.

But of course the San Diego fence
pushed the illegal influx eastward,
into the (less hospitable) Arizona desert.

A serious commitment to border security
would require fencing off the entire southern borderâ€”
all 1,891 miles of it.
(For comparison,
we have 40,000 miles of Maintained US Interstate Highways.)

At $1.7 million per mile
(the cost of the first 10 mile stretch in San Diego),
the entire U.S.-Mexican border could be sealed off
(all 1,891 miles of it )
for $3.3 billion dollars.

Iraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.

Cost / benefit analysis, anyone?

joevette

This is not Bush's idea, he would never try to slow down the illegal immigration. I do not think it will do any good long term it may slow down crossings for a few weeks until tunnels are built.

gokart121

The UK's got its' own immigration problems, they need to sit down for themselves and figure out what to do about them independently of the USA. We have a huge illegal immigration problem IN the USA, and fixing it will likely require a fence among other things, like state-level enforcement, as well as employer enforcement, good national policy on immigration, and other things. Good fences DO make good neighbors...get out there and write some letters supporting better immigration enforcement to your representatives. The sooner the People take issue with it, the sooner it'll be handled properly, fairly, and effectively...

anyways_fukitol

it better enough is enough!!!!! damn it!

Erika H

It's purpose is not to deter immigration - it's purpose is to deter people form illegally entering the United States. A country without borders is not a country. (Sort of like your house - but on a smaller scale. You don't leave your doors open 24/7, that sort of thing...)

luvbuggies

I agree. American greed will be the end of this great nation.

toobusytostress

It may slow it down, but nothing will stop it.

Just another of the President's hare brained ideas.

I wouldn't doubt it - that it is a construction co. buddy scheme.

No the new 7 hundred-mile wall along the U.S. border will not change anything our border with Mexico is at least twise that distance.Its like locking your car doors wile leaving all your windows rolled down and saying your car is safe and secure from attack.(THE NEW WALL IS A PAPER TIGER ITS PURPOSE IS TO TRICK AMERICANS THAT DONT KNOW ANY BETTER INTO THINKING OUR GOVERNMENT IS GETTING TOUGH ON IMAGRATION AND TERRORISOM)

La Gueta Micaela

No not at all.......Yep it is just a scheme

spie2

Bring our boys home, since they don't want us there anyway. Let the Islamic radicals continue to eradicate each other over there. Put our boys on the border with all the ammunition they need and take the illegals out one at a time

railroad dave

6 major tunnels under construction under fence already.

Yukaza

I'm not sure if the UK has as many illegal aliens as the US does.We aren't concerned with the people that enter via legal means .Our concern is for the person that sneaks across the border and works in this nation unlawfully.
The border fence may or may not get built,and since its only not quite 1/3 of the border its self may not be worth the money to build it.But 80 to 90% of the US want stronger secured borders to help with this problem.
Its a huge drain on our economy .
It costs far more to have the illegal here than it benefits in the so called "cheap labor".We have any where from 12 million to 20 million illegals in this country.Depending on who's estimate you go by,so it has become a very serious issue .
The fence (its not a wall) will have state of the art surveillance,it will be loaded with sensors to prevent climbing and tunneling,it will be a combination of car barriers and fencing,Its supposed to be the best .I am for anything that will act as a deterrent to the illegal aliens.Anything.

Whippersnapper

Sure it will. But then you'll have to get rid of alot of border patrolls. They the ones that will have a problem with it.

chicago_paratrooper

Who gives a ***?

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