re: The Wall - One of the dumbest things ever

Building a continuous wall across the entire border is impractical, but in certain places walls are highly effective. I lived in El Paso in the late 80s, you could just walk across a ditch and hop a single chain link fence and be over. Since then they erected formidable physical barriers and illegal crossings there plummeted from over 5000 a year to 200. We need walls in places, we need more border staff, we need drones, we need to make it a felony to knowingly employ illegals, and we need to actually validate I'd and social security info when people apply to rent houses, open bank accounts, etc. In Canada you can't take a dump without a valid tax ID number and they have no problem with illegal immigration. It makes it pretty much impossible for an illegal to live there for any length of time