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Originally Posted by Judy

Americans will be armed to the hilt and will most definitely defend themselves. You're new and don't know what the Wall of Americans means. Judy's Wall of Americans is a corps of 40,000 American citizens guarding every mile of our border with Mexico. 6 person teams, 3 teams a day, 18 guards for each mile for 24/7 coverage, with 2 floaters for holidays and sick leave, 20 Americans per mile counting the floaters, x 2000 miles = 40,000 guards, earning $40,000 a year ($20 an hour) plus 20% in benefits for annual cost of $50,000 a year per guard. $50k x 40k = $2 billion a year plus $800 million a year for equipment, weapons, vehicles, radios, phones, binoculars, night vision gear, trailers, camping gear, supplies, etc. All they do is guard the mile. Add $200 million for management and administration and you've got an annual cost of $3 billion with every mile of the US border covered by at least 6 armed and equipped Americans at all times. They're Border Guards or Scouts whatever you want to call them, while Border Patrol's 25,000 Border Patrol Agents do the processing, transporting and so forthing.

All of that, and you are going to let them walk right in and then go to the expense of processing, transporting, and so forthing? Why not STOP them from crossing and eliminate that expense and circus?

I'm sure they will stop most of them. But some are going to get in and have to be arrested and processed and you don't want the guards/scouts to leave their mile. Right now, for every 1 arrested by BP, 4 or 5 are getting through unaccounted for and once inside the interior, they're gone. The purpose of the Wall of Americans is to not only stop them at the border, but track those who get in so BP can pick 'em up before they disappear into the interior.

I know what you want to do, but I don't support that.

I'd much rather use economic sanctions on their home countries so they'll stop it, and they will, because trade with the United States is far more valuable to them than drug and other criminal enterprise money and remittances. If we use economic sanctions against these countries, sanctions that impact all their businesses, citizens and governments, they'll unite to stop it on their own.