Keith Devens .com

Probably because a wall wouldn't solve anything.

How wouldn't a wall (with appropriate surveillance and counter-measures available) solve anything?

Because a country cannot shut itself like an oyster and hope all the problems will go away. Like an ostrich which it head in the ground "if I don't see the problem then there is noi problem".

It has nothing to do with America "shutting itself like an oyster". This is absolutely not classic isolationism, but rather "controlled access". We must be able to control who comes into the country, or there's no chance of protecting ourselves from terrorists. I don't understand... what part of this do you disagree with?

Because that could only happen effectively in fantasyland.

Ok, 'b', do you care to offer arguments as to why you believe building a wall to protect our borders would be impossible? I mean, things like the great wall of China notwithstanding, you may be right, but giving reasons would be more likely to convince me than dismissing it out of hand.

The reason they pour across the border is because we want them to. Peroid! An impenetrable border is vastly easy to create and maintain. Try sneaking from USSR into Poland during the cold war...No way, can't happen. I could go on and on with examples all through history of how easy it is to keep people from going where you don't want them. All these illegals couldn't walk across the border and right into Fort Knox...why..??? Because we don't want them to. This is not and issue about a border, never has been, never will be.