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1. Short term, yeah. Long term, absolutely not. 

2. 16,000 people in the month of December -- and that's just counting who we caught. Well over a hundred thousand annually. The cost of which is estimated to be in the many tens of billions (if not over a hundred billion) of dollars in programs, tax credits and law enforcement. And then there's cartel, gang, and god forbid someday terrorist groups exploiting the border. PLUS, hey, you know, uh, Mexico is [i]toooootally[/i] going to pay for it anyway, so it's basically free, right? In every way this is worth the investment.

3. We'll see.

(4) the border has to be constantly manned anyway (and is). It's porous. Patrolling [i]without[/i] a physical barrier is far more difficult and inefficient than with one. And remember -- it (kinda, for a while anyway) worked for China. It works in Israel. It's working in Hungary. [i]This is a good idea.[/i] It has been for thousands of years.