Hardly a Coulter fan. But I'm capable of agreeing with an idea, regardless of the source. Looks like you aren't. This is how you would fix the illegal immigration issue, at least on the southern border.
Birth tourism from China? That's a nice little exception to consider. Now explain to me how your wall is going to fix that one, genius.
I guess you assume that people coming from the south are all from the southern countries? I guess you didn't read about all the Africans coming into this country from the border as well.
But birther tourism is more than other people coming here to have American kids. Governments and radical muslims are sending all kinds of people here. The kids are born here, they are taken back home to get radicalized and grow up hating Americans, and then once old enough, can cross right into this country no questions asked to do God knows what harm to the people in this country. Thanks to Democrats, there will be nothing you can do to stop them either.
"I guess you assume that people coming from the south are all from the southern countries?"
I didn't say anything even remotely close to suggesting this.
From your article:
BEIJING — When Ma Fahong approached the immigration desk at Los Angeles International Airport, the customs agent had only two questions for her.
“Why are you coming to the U.S.?”
“I’m here to have a baby.”
This isn't an issue that can be fixed by an expensive wall. And the issue you bring up isn't even related to the southern border we were supposed to be talking about.
If walls didn't work, Democrats wouldn't be opposed to them, and many of them live behind them themselves.
Not cost-effective.
If you guys really want to stop illegal immigration, then you should push e-verify and severely penalize employers for hiring illegals.
It's simple - they're not going to come/stay here if they can't make a living for themselves. They're getting hired and paid for low wages, which is in turn driving American wages down. Now they don't affect me at all and I don't mind them, I'm just telling you this is how it could get done if you really want them out.
They can go around, over, or under a wall. They can overstay their visa, which occurs more often than people illegally crossing the border and which can't be prevented by a big expensive wall.
For 7th Consecutive Year, Visa Overstays Exceeded Illegal Border Crossings
Lastly, I'll never support tax-payer dollars going to your stupid ineffective wall (unless you somehow get Mexico to pay for it) but e-verify is something that even I can support in the right context.