I have no problem with effectively constructed walls in populated border areas, such as San Diego and El Paso. One of the biggest issues that I have with the border wall is inefficiency. I don't believe that it is an efficient means of discouraging illegal immigration. For that amount of money, we could employ 24 hour surveillance along the sections of the border without walls for years. I think technology would serve us better than a physical wall. Beyond that, as has been stated by others, those overstaying HB-1 visas hasn't been dealt with in an effective manner either. Enforcement uses no common sense as well. INS spends resources deporting business owners and people who have lived here with no real ties to their country of origin while obvious populations of illegals live in open defiance and make no effort to assimilate.

IMHO, the solutions are easier if we stop looking at the problems myopically. We are crying about illegal immigration decades after the policies that could have slowed it might have worked. We are rushing to "close the barn door" and in so doing are sidestepping the issues that need to be addressed. While I share the concerns some have expressed, we need to know who is here. The phrase undocumented isn't just a pejorative; it means we must identify those people who are living within our borders. If we started right now and had the will to do so, we couldn't deport everyone that is here without proper documentation for many years, if at all. So it should be clear that the solutions being offered by our politicians, whether it be DACA or the wall, are negligent and band aids at best. Common sense should dictate that we need a sensible long term plan that encompasses border security and an effective means of dealing with those already here. Simply howling at the moon and shouting "deport them all" may make you feel better, but it really isn't a workable solution.