Billions of dollars

Just to make 10 less people cross each year

Because they still need to find the money to pay people to let them through tunnels or hide on boats

Or stow away in planes

Why would it slow it for weeks/months?

It’s a constant thing

Even older fences are more effective long run than no fence

Because it would take time for the people to start realizing they can go through tunnels and hide on ships

Once they do? What are you going to do, pay billions more to build a wall in the sea?

Hide on ships?

You do realise they’re screened + US coast guard.

Us coast guard can’t be anywhere

And won’t stop random ships that are simply floating along

Nobody crosses into America from the sea illegally

Unless it’s smuggling

Which is very rare

That’s a lie-

Tunnels? They exist now but vast majority do not use it - the wall goes below 10 feet

And it’s concrete.

No they bring people via boat alright

Along with guess what?

**drugs**

Yes that’s smuggling, and they’re usually caught

Not as much as you thing

The ocean is a big place

Hello

And before you try to rant about increasing coast guard because **aparently** throwing enough people and wasting enough money can solve any issues

GG @Username, you just advanced to level 2!

The borders however are not, we have constant surveillance of the us waters

Nobody gets in without screening

Keep in mind that a boarder patrol agent probably could be a 10th the cost of a coast guard agent

We don’t need to increase coast guard resources, it’s already sufficient.

Yes

But it isn’t as effective as you believe it

The wall works, which means people en mass stop entering illegally

They have radar, yes, but it has its range

Drive a dozen miles off shore

Disappear from radar

Drive up a bit

Re enter radar

And just float along like a privately owned ship