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Joe Klein of Time declares a wall "impossible." Senator Hagel says it is "impractical." I say, tell it to the ancient Chinese, to the guys who built the Panama Canal and the Hoover Dam, the subway systems of New York and London. A wall is not only eminently doable, it's a piece of cake, assuming one knows even a little about modern concrete construction techniques and has an understanding of basic math. And the projected cost of $4 billion to $8 billion that you cite? I assume that projection assumes the job being done by the Army Corps of Engineers or farmed out to large government contractors like Halliburton or Bechtel. But sub-contract the job out to a hundred smaller contractors, each a specialist in concrete construction, each with a defined portion of the wall to build, and each incentivized with performance bonuses, and just watch how quickly and inexpensively that wall will go up.

Those who argue against the wall -- because it is too hard, too impractical, too expensive, or would send the wrong signal -- are selling America short every bit as much as those who argue that we should cut and run from Iraq. What's infuriating is that, as you and others have pretty convincingly shown, their arguments are specious, hollow, non-credible, even laughable; problem is, they have a platform, and so many people buy the slop they are selling.

p>Thanks for your good piece. When the full history of this sorry episode in our history is written, I'm sure it will be included in the large body of evidence demonstrating that the arguments of the anti-illegal forces were fact-based, forthright, and focused on the interests of the majority; while the arguments of the other side (as few as those arguments have been) were based on nothing but silly sentimentality, arrogance, and empty-headed assertion, and were focused on the interests of the few to the detriment of the many. br> -- Chuck Vail /p>

The problem is nothing has been done to really stop ILLEGAL immigration. The laws already on the books would go a long way, but the enforcement is only a wink, wink, yeah we are really working on it and it is IMPORTANT to us. Right.

I laughed when Bush said it was urgent to control the border. This came six years after he came into office. URGENT is doing something the first year. Where is the INS? Why aren't more business owners being charged with illegal hiring? Why are my tax dollars being used to help people that have broken the law to come into America? Why do lawbreakers have ANY rights at all? If I go and rob a bank to feed myself, will I get a break?

p>The word ILLEGAL is not a hard word to understand to most Americans, just to Bush and the rest of the Democrats and RINO's. This group of politicians would like nothing better than to have a American Union made up of Mexico, America and Canada. Be afraid, be very afraid. br> -- Elaine Kyle br> Texas /p>

Inquiring minds want to know from Senators McCain and Kennedy. One hundred thousand MS-13 gang members roam our streets, most of them here illegally, according to National Geographic.

p>They commit murder, extortion and armed robbery with regularity. Should they along with the estimated 200 thousand child molesters be granted citizenship? Or should we kick them out of the country? Let's hear it!

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