Awesome. Love having a businessman being President. I'm looking forward to seeing the designs. Hopefully it's tall and strong and deep where it needs to be, and a camera tower every half-mile or so where it doesn't.

So totally awesome. A "businessman" who has run so many businesses into the ground, why not hand him the entire country now. The wall's got to be high enough to stop all the planes that half of the illegal immigrants *actually* arrive in (if only there was an entity capable of reading statistics in this government) and hey yess! let's add lots of towers to make sure we compare favorably with other such marvelous structures. The Soviet Union's iron curtain comes to mind.

"The Made in America Great Wall" 50 feet high, 30 feet thick, and impenetrable from sea to shiny sea.....

Can I bid on creating the tall collapsible ladders? or the rope?
This project is such an expensive joke. You could just fly into the USA legally and overstay your visit.

A nation has to protect it's borders and uphold the law. Which is something this country has long forgotten about. Here's what I would do: Everyone who legally enters gets a visa, that visa should have a gps chip in it, so they can be tracked, and if they overstay their visa's, they can easily be found & deported. Everyone who overstays ans gets deported should have a 10 year "no-entry" on their name, so they can't just come right back in next week. Anyone who destroys or throws away their visa card, gets put into a registry of criminals who need to be deported. Illegals wouldn't be flooding in if we didn't have jobs for them, so to make sure companies are doing background checks on their employees, make a 10,000 dollar fine per illegal caught working for you. I would also build a wall, 30' high, 20' deep, several feet thick of high strength concrete. Some area's don't need a wall, like some desert portions, for those I would install a camera tower network, every half mile, equipped with high resolution & thermal imaging camera's. Have trucks tow a ground penetrating radar trailer and makes passes along the border, to find & then destroy tunnels.

@Derek, I'm really confused by people enamored with building this wall. First of all, we already have an extensive wall on most of our southern border and those specific places where we don't, we have a river and/or thousands of border patrol agents. So from a strategic standpoint this wall is redundant and a complete waste of money.
And then if we look at this wall from an ethical and moral point of view, it's just wrong. Theres really no justification other than xenophobia, a serious inferiority complex and/or outright hate, especially considering we're pretty much all immigrants or descended from them and at one time faced the same hate and discrimination that is now being levied against undocumented immigrants.
Why do certain pockets of people in the US fear undocumented immigrants so much? I mean, what they should be fearing is the quickly approaching sunset of their economic prospects because they're unwilling to do one of the following to improve their situation: work harder, move somewhere that has better job prospects, get a better education to make themselves more appealing to today's job market, use any number of federal/state programs to improve their situation, or just plain sit down with an undocumented immigrant and ask how they can emulate their success in climbing the socio- economic ladder.
In the end here's what it all boils down to, IMO: If you think the only way to safeguard your position in American society is to build a wall to keep out those who yearn for a better life, then you've already lost a significant chunk of what it means to be American. And all for a meanspirited and redundant wall.

Build it and they will come. And come. And come some more. Digging under it. Leaping over it. Flying over it. Blasting through it. It's inevitable as it is necessary. America as we knEw it is doomed.

@BeWalt, @Milton, @LarryWolf: Agreed! And I'll see you all at the March for Science on April 22nd 😎

Insane waste of money ! What about removing the incentive to come? No auto citizenship to babies born here, no healthcare, higher min wages (hire Americans to do those jobs at higher wages ), etc. Hit the reasons why they come.

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