Can you have border security without building the fence?

Question

Can you have border security without building the fence?

Answer 1

No.  It is like saying can I have a secure home without having any doors or windows in the home.

Answer 2

Motion sensors, armed patrols, rapid response armed teams in helicopters based about every 100 miles or so. That could work.

Increasing illegal presence in the US to a felony, fully enforcing the laws related to illegal hiring, increasing penalties for abetting illegal aliens, and totally depriving illegal aliens access to any and all public services would help by removing the incentives for coming illegally.

Answer 3

I don't know where you are, but there is existing border security. That fence will cost tax payers billions and it won't be 100% effective.

Hire more border patrol agents, and give raises to the ones already there.

A fence and more automated surveillance = less jobs for Americans right?

Answer 4

Yes:

By adding large number of patrol officers, electronic monitors, state of the art sensors, GPS.s,  lasers, you name it.

All will be much more costly than building a fence.

By the way the fence will not  last too.

Look at Berlin.

The best way will be improving the economics of nations trying to flee to US for jobs.

Answer 5

The reason we have the military, and are asking for the military on the border is... we don't have red neck on the border.. usually armed.  What we do have are a lot of Mexican American Communities that are essentially defenseless against the Mexican Mafia as they move tons of dope over every inch of the border.  I am telling you then that the narcotics, and the efforts of the Coyotes (human smugglers) along the border make that something of a front line in the effort to stop the invasion of illegal aliens from many place, but mostly Mexico.

The Fence directs armed men to places where an effort to cross is being made.  If we don't get that fence in place, we need troops that can patrol the border and stop the people from coming over.  There is a HUGE amount of money involved and I believe the narcotics are being transshipped all over the world.  Most certainly the narcotics come in.  

The United States needs to control its border.  If we don't do it, Mexico will, and until very recently, Mexico did control the border.

Yes.  We need the fence or troops.

Answer 6

impenetrable borders are just an illusion but a fence will work better than nothing. but it needs to work both ways because alot of arms are smugled into our neighbor country. also maybe we need more education here so we can stop consuming drugs, no demand = no supply

Answer 7

NO!