As Romney has done. That is what is pathetic.

And that my friend is why employers DON’T want e-verify.

What naive world does Herman Cain live in?

As soon as the 20 ft high electrified fence is built the drug cartels will blow it up.
They are better armed and more ruthless than the US border patrol.

Besides they have multiple ways they are smuggling people, weapons & drugs into the US. Most people caught crossing the border are decoys anyway.
The drug cartels pay them to create diversions while they get busy with the heavy duty crossings. That is why you need drones and a military presence on the border. Perry will get the manpower & firepower down to the border.

I know all about Israel?s Security Fence.

The secruity fence is the largest infrastructure project in Israel’s history. The cost of the project has ballooned from an expected $1 billion to more than $2.1 billion. Each kilometer of fence costs approximately $2 million.
So 1800 miles is about 2896 kilometers or about $5.8 billion if you use the figures of the Israel?s Security Fence. Not at all unreasonable. But you are talking about the federal govt building the fence….so I would budget about $50 billion for a fence that would go from the Texas Gulf border to the California pacific border. How long would it take? Let’s say you could
build 300 foot per day working 24/7/365. At that pace you could build one mile of fence in 17 days. 1800 miles x 17 days would be 30,600 days or about 83 years. So yes the border fence would be ready to go in 2094.
Of course you could hire 10 times as many people and cut that down to
about 8 years. I imagine building a border fence would be great for all those big union contractors that the feds love so much.

Of course the new fence would have to be better than what we have.

But the same day as Obama’s speech, Sen. Jim DeMint penned an op-ed for National Review in which he countered that the Obama administration has “not done its job to finish the border fence that is a critical part of keeping Americans safe and stopping illegal immigration.”

“Five years ago, legislation was passed to build a 700-mile double-layer border fence along the southwest border,” DeMint wrote. “This is a promise that has not been kept. Today, according to staff at the Department of Homeland Security, just 5 percent of the double-layer fencing is complete, only 36.3 miles.”

So what gives? Is the border fence “now basically complete” or not?

Not to go all Clinton on you, but it largely depends on how you define “fence.”

You need to go back to the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President George W. Bush. It authorized the construction of hundreds of miles of additional fencing along the border with Mexico. The act specified “at least two layers of reinforced fencing.”

But the law was quietly altered in a significant way the following year.

Responding to urging from the Department of Homeland Security — which argued that different border terrains required different types of fencing, that a one-size-fits-all approach across the entire border didn’t make sense — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, proposed an amendment to give DHS the discretion to decide what type of fence was appropriate in different areas. The law was amended to read, “nothing in this paragraph shall require the Secretary of Homeland Security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location.”

In other words, Border Patrol would have the leeway to decide which type of fencing was appropriate in various regions.

But is it accurate for Obama to claim that “the fence is now basically complete”?

DHS reports that there is now fencing for 649 of the 652 miles described in the Secure Fence Act of 2006. But the vast majority of the requirement was met with vehicle barriers and single-layer pedestrian fence. The original act specifically called for double-layer fencing, and only 36.3 miles of double-layered fencing currently exist. However, the act was later amended to allow Border Security the discretion to determine which type of fencing was appropriate for different areas.

So Obama can make a case that the vehicle barriers and single-layer pedestrian fences meet the amended letter of the law. But we also think Obama misleads, particularly when he mocks Republican opponents, saying that even though the fence has been built, “They’ll want want a higher fence. Maybe they?ll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat.” The Border Patrol has not gone “above and beyond” what Republicans requested, as Obama claimed. What they originally requested was a double-layer fence, and they didn’t get much of it. And so we rate Obama’s statement Barely True.