[Raycpa]

Listen folks, the cost is not the issue. If every state in the nation is spending 100 million each and every single year on noise abatement on highways that is 5 billion every year so that you don't hear traffic in your livingroom.

The cost of this proposed wall by comparison is minor compared to what we are doing for the cost of stopping noise.

The real issue of the wall is not the cost, its whether it is effective in stopping illegal immigration or whether it will simply redirect the traffic somewhere else.

[Prokopton]

"The real issue of the wall is not the cost, its whether it is effective in stopping illegal immigration or whether it will simply redirect the traffic somewhere else."

If the fence is long enough the only place traffic could be redirected to would be the Pacific or the Gulf. I figure about 10,000 new Border Patrol agents, at a cost of only about $1 billion/year, could patrol the fence efficiently for any breaches. Sensors and electronic surveillance would also be used productively.

Their is no question we can control the border...if we want to.