Sink the base of the fence 50 ft underground. It might not stop everyone - but it will stop a huge percentage. Then put cameras all along the US side to watch for burrowers. It is doable.
I'd be willing to bet if someone ran for President next year with the platform of building a wall across the entire southern border - they would win in a landslide.
Very true. Also, I believe the fence plan which has been approved is really a double fence. That way, digging a tunnel 10 feet long does no real good. You have to tunnel under two fences, which takes much longer. Couple that with electronic surveillance and the number that could make it through would be too small to possibly matter.
We should get a fence up along the entire border as quickly as possible to create “facts on the ground”. Politically, its easier for the open border crowd to block a proposed fence than it would be to tear down an existing one.
Once we have the basic fence up, we can upgrade it over time (add electronic sensors, roads, second line of fences, etc.).
Hell, we can make the globalizers happy (and save money) by fighting fire by fire— call the Chinese and outsource the job to the PLA .
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-10-16-china-nkorea_x.htm