China built a great wall thousands of years ago.
The only thing stopping us, is our political class.
Build it.
Now.
Let’s have a contest. The FReeper who submits the best design wins!!
There is nothing hard about it.
Perhaps we are framing it wrong.
Hey Obama. You need to build a giant flat gray fence along the southern border so you can shine rainbow colored lights on it that can be seen from space. (To let the aliens know that they can come down here and get married and share benefits, ya know.)
I've seen that wall. It wouldn't stop an invasion unless it was manned.
But, I know what you mean. And I agree completely.
The regime is too busy pushing gays on American boys and attacking free speech and raising our taxes and is not concerned about murderers and rapists crossing the border.
If an illegal alien ever scales that part of the border, not only does he/she deserve U.S. citizenship, but a fricking Presidential Medal of Freedom.
One can only conclude they don't want one. For whatever reason, an endless stream of Mexicans and South Americans suits their fancy.
There's a prerequisite to building an effective fence. It is "having the will to do bad things to those who attempt to scale it".
Even a modest 8 foot high chain link fence would be effective, though, if the crossers knew that there were US Marine snipers watching it, with orders to shoot anybody trying to scale the fence. But the US does not have the will to go that far.
Notice that the good of the country did not figure into that calculation.
It’s a long border. You can build a wall just about anywhere if you’re willing to work through bogs, streams and political pressure.
As far as I know Trump is the only candidate who has called for building a wall all along the border. On the other hand, Rick Perry seems to think that the Texas border is already sufficiently well protected.
What’s puzzling to me is Perry leveled some pretty serious criticism against Trump and, instead of Trump trashing Perry (as he has done with every other critic of him) he tweeted how much he liked Perry. Why is that?
No jobs for illegal invaders!
Jobs for Americans!
Build the fence!
Now!
You do realize that highway system took like 50 years to finish right. Also the parts of the wall we’ve built got circumvented within a week. China’s Great Wall took centuries to build, technically isn’t done yet, and failed completely.
Without the state, who will build the border fences?
Oh, wait...
If fences don’t work at keeping people out, why does the White House have one that it is making even more impenetrable?
You can build one from California to the Rio Grande but that’s as far as you can go.
What in the world is so difficult about building a border fence?
...
Nothing. The government doesn’t want to stop illegal aliens. That’s the problem.
Imagine this country trying to send manned aircraft to the moon nowadays. It just wouldn’t happen. America isn’t the same country it was all those years ago.
This is a Joke right?? You cannot be serious about this proposal.
We can NEVER close the border, we never will, we will never build any kind of fence, it simply is not possible, no matter how much you think we can do it, we can’t!!
Over 85% of ALL Controlled Substances not available by prescription comes straight across our southern border into America. 3 out of 4 PUBLIC Servants are directly employed as a result of this War on Some Drugs. There are countless Millions employed in ancillary businesses as a direct result of the War on Some Drugs. The Government currently extracts some $50 Billion Dollars annually from we serf’s to wage this war.
What would happen to all these drug warriors?? Who will FIRE ALL OF THEM?? What will they do for work?? Who would ever Hire Them?? All they know is Gestapo Tactics, Totalitarianism, and Propaganda related to the War on Some Drugs. Do you think for some strange reason they will just give us that money back??
Your crazy idea of building a fence would decimate our Government to one of serving the people instead of controlling the people. NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, Dream On, but I did get a good laugh at your idea, thank you.