Some border-town Texas mayors don't want the 700 mile fence being built on our border with Mexico. Quote: "Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster said he had received hate e-mails from Americans outside Texas who accuse him of being soft on security. But the mayors argue there are better ways to stop illegal immigrants and drug traffickers.
"The perception in some parts of the United States is that you build a fence and then migration stops. The reality is that it will slow down migrants by three to four minutes," he said."
The mayors do claim to have solutions: "Mayors advocate deepening and widening the Rio Grande to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking, as well as increasing the number of Border Patrol agents and cutting back the Carrizo cane reeds growing on the river banks that allow people to hide in the river banks."
Doing all that, but not adding a fence as well, makes no sense, however. You have to put up roadblocks on the easy access routes, as well as the hard ones.
