To Build, or Not to Build?
The US-Mexico border is nearly 2,000 miles long, and about 685 miles of it already has some sort of barrier. In fact, it was President George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act of 2006 that led to the construction of most of the fence and barriers we have today. Nonetheless, research suggests that this $2.3 billion fence came at a high cost with little to no benefits since undocumented immigrants just found new routes and wildlife was negatively affected. The current state of the gov