High Fence and Wide Gate from Hugh Hewitt

From the posting "Barone on Immigration"

In the days before a consensus emerged, the answer might have been budget, but there is zero argument based on budget restriction now. Any politician arguing we can't spend what it takes to build a fence would be laughed out of the room.

The idea of adverse symbols is similarly silly. We already have dozens of miles of fences, and the rhetoric of the open border extreme is already super-heated. Comparing a fence to keep illegal entrants out to the Berlin Wall is simply a quick indicator of a silly person.

There might be some resistance from within the Border Patrol community, who realize that low tech, effective fencing diminishes the need for high tech devices and expanding numbers of agents, but, again, no one makes that argument.

And if business really wants an assured supply of labor, it has to realize that the high fence-wide gate approach is the best path to that goal.