[quote=@Vilageidiotx] I feel like this bit highlights all the practical problems with building a wall, and why it isn't a worthwhile investment, and why it is mostly a political red herring used to keep us from focusing on our real problems. 1: That 100% effectiveness is unlikely and shouldn't taken into calculation. 50% elimination would be wildly impressive. 2: That we've already got walls in the sensible places, and what we are mostly discussing now is the utility of building walls across the remote deserts and mountains that make up so much of the border. 3: That it would be a continuous cost to upkeep a massive piece of infrastructure that more or less doesn't do anything. This means it would probably be abandoned in portions as both parties look to reapportion that money to active projects, so that I would expect the Trump portions of the wall to be mostly abandoned and let go into ruin since they are impractical. I personally don't have a problem with them building the wall. I'd rather Trump focus on it, actually. Sure, it's a waste of money, and there is probably some dark and dirty corruption behind the plan, but corrupt wastes of money is something we can swallow and forget. Get the dumb thing out of the way so we can get to forgetting about it sooner, and hope that Republicans don't start pushing something equally "useful" like building a really really really tall tower on the Canada border so we can see to the artic. [/quote] 1. [url=http://www.dailywire.com/news/15417/report-border-crossings-down-93-percent-aaron-bandler#exit-modal]Prepare to be impressed![/url] Just by talking about it, we've made a big dent. Follow-through is important though, or else that's all coming right back. 2. 600 of 1900 miles, if my sources are any good (they're probably not) are currently walled. That's a LOT of open territory. Anyway if we had the sensible places all shored up then why do we still have illegal immigration? 3. I mean I'm waiting to see what the project looks like before declaring it useless. One proposal involved covering the whole thing in solar panels -- I mean how badass would that be? We are, after all, talking about deserts. That could be huge. Another proposal worked in some mass transit (though I dunno how many passengers/goods take that route -- I mean I guess our own little land-borne panama canal could be neat).