Two billion dollars for multi-year construction of a long-lasting border fence is actually not that much money. We spend more than that on upgrades and maintenance on canals and waterways.
That some people will get around the fence is not a reason to avoid building it. For crying out loud. They won’t all get around it.
As has been noted, the real problem is conditions in Mexico. Mexico is poor because a small number of rich people consistently identify squeezing the average worker there as the chief way to make their businesses profitable. The wealthy have hiring cartels and businesses there take cooperative action that is prohibited by law in the United States. It is a disfuntional society where the government is weak and easily bought.
Mexico does not allow foreingers to simply walk into Mexico. Look how they treat their own Central American illegal immigrants. They arrest them and throw them in jail.
It is true that America’s illegal immigration problem is self-inflicted to some extent, by American businesses that save money by hiring people who will work for less. However, there are no “jobs that Americans won’t do.” There are many jobs that Americans won’t do for ultra-low wages earned by illegal immigrants who fear deportation. Mexico has to some extent successfully exported their rotten way of doing business.
