Build a huge wall from Texas to California

ok... so... a huge wall from California to Texas. Yeah... good. Let's make a huge wall from Washington to Maine as well.  This is better... lets close the shores...  build a wall from Washington to California and from Maine all around to Texas. Yes that would be great. trade would come by air.  Lets close ALL the borders.  Return the country  to the good old days of isolation.  Question is who will build it. I know I won't. Unless of course they pay me a good salary, benefits, you know the works. Well... no... that would cost to much tax money.  Lets get the illegals to do it.  They'll do anything almost for free. Then we'll keep them out. Thats the idea.  I mean they are laxy, and they take our jobs, and they don't pay taxes, drain the welfare system, etc.  Those hardened criminals. Shame on them.  They should all be locked up. Them and their kids. Those evil things.  Taking spaces at school, draining our resources. Makes one want to grab his/her rifle and just go minute man on them. ... Read more

thats so freakin great

A wall with machine guns mounted on top of it and some landmines would do the trick nicely. OR make it impossible for them to work here by inforcing the LAW,not allowing their kids to go to school and not allowing them to legally obtain housing, they will self deport. Either way problem solved....................OH and for those of you who want to scream racism etc at me show me any other civilized country you can just walk into?

Speaking as a Canuck, there are times, after witnessing some particularly annoying tourist, that I'd favor a wall built along the 49th Parallell to keep some folks south of it.

While I favor the idea, if any of you believe that either Obama or McCain will do **** to stop illegal Mexicans from coming here....message me...I have a $1.83 baseball card I will sell you for $175,000.00 (call now).

Sounds like someone really envies the wall Emperor Chin built to stop the Mongolians.

damn about time

I think illegal immigration is a huge problem, and building a wall along Mexico from TX to CA would make a lot of sense to me.  With stupid bailouts, pointless wars, and lame candidates, this would be a really easy and affordable fix to one of the United States current slew of problems.  It's cliche to say this but I'm all for those who want to live and work here legally but those who don't respect our laws need to leave.  Personally, I'd like to deport McCain, Obama, Cher, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Bragelina, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, my sister's boyfriend, Maury Povich, Rosie O'Donnell, Rush Limbaugh

It would probably be cheaper just to pay for them to live in the US... and a wall isn't exactly an insurmountable obstacle.

Walls can never prevent the digging of tunnels, which would increase in density and length. Kind or reminds me of the Berlin wall. We might as well place land mines. Not practical.

it wouldn't completely solve the problem, but it would help, especially if the border was patrolled by either the national guard or american soldiers.

They only real way to enfore our policy. Illegal immigrants are ILLEGAL, or in other words BREAKING THE LAW! My father became a naturalized citizen. Either they should do that, or be granted permanent residence status, or a visa at the very least so they DON'T BREAK THE LAW. If we are ever going to be taken seriously by the global community, then we better do something about this PROBLEM. The wall will be a band-aid for the immigration wound with immigrants being the ever-flowing blood. Unless clearly stated, this is the best way. So don't say , "There's a better way", and criticize unless you can clearly state the appropriate alternative. You gotta be realistic and practical.

It might not be as effective a deterrent as people think. What's to stop travellers from overstaying their tourist visas? There's a big market for cheap labor, and little enforcement of current labor laws. Employers who have hired the five percent of U.S. jobs which are currently filled by illegal immigrants have not been held accountable. The stiffest penalties belong to those who are cheating the public large amounts of employment taxes, as well as those exploiting their fellow humans in ruthlessly hazardous conditions. Building more boundaries will not change anyone's determination. Walls are an incomplete response at best.

Do we get to spray paint on it? JOURNEY y 38 SPECIAL NO ES BUENO!

What you do is use the illegals to build the wall and you get the supplies from Mexico, that has one of the world's largest stone plants in the world, and make it look like a good economic decision to the Mexican government. After they are done building you send them back and garrison it with 30,000 U.S. troops and National Guardsmen.

A wall would be ineffective in the long-term and would send a most inappropriate signal--- ultimately it would be little more than a symbolic response to a crisis in dire need of a practical solution. It would be much more prudent and cost-effective to simply invest additional manpower and resources in border patrol activities.

Dramatic but probably minimally effective. A lot of people enter the country by coming here on vacation (i.e. airplane) and just not going home. Also, illegals are commonly shipped in via private boats departing from Ensenada and heading to Long Beach or San Diego. It would be a huge expense that would be less effective than prosecuting the employers who hire them.

It's worth the money and will work.

This is really STUPID.You mean to tell me with all the BILLIONS we spend on National Defense Technology we can't come up with something better than the Chinese used against the Mongol Hordes?