Why not just build the wall around the Whitehouse?
Forget building anything. Work with Mother Nature! Plant Hippomane mancinella (“little apple of death”) all along the border, intertwined with some gympie-gympie (Dendrocnide moroides) just for some horticultural hijinx.
If you brush up against the “little apple of death”, its white sap produces a violent allergic reaction. So toxic is this stuff that even if you come in contact with rain thats run off it in a storm you’ll get blisters. Its fruit can look yummy to an exhausted desert trekker, and if somehow you get to eat some, you’ll be rewarded with a seizure, vomiting and diarrhoea motherload that more often than not will kill you.
Gympie-gympie is green, heart-shaped leafed bush (spread the love!) covered with hair-like stinging needles that contain a powerful neurotoxin that causes excruciating pain. The itching is so extreme, and so painful it’s known to kill dogs and horses, and drive humans mad with the agony.
This hedge of hearts and apples is something you wouldn’t be able to climb, or dig under; and you certainly couldn’t get through it. No idea how much it would cost to plant and water, but would $1b cover it?
I read this thread with increasing dismay. Building the wall is a good start on helping America’s crumbling infrastructure? I’m going to have to tag that as an #AlternateIdea.
The best suggestion, given the White House mood, was from Cornelius Tuggerson:
Isn’t it Trump’s will that is more relevant here? I’m curious what aceplace57’s opinion on that is.
I had to click the link to see if this was a parody from The Onion. No? I guess the idea is to depress Mexico’s economy, thereby increasing the flux of wetback crossings (and therefore detonations), so that more graft can be skimmed from whatever happy munitions manufacturer is supplying the landmines Cornelius Tuggerson speaks of. :eek:
Because JugearS Obama has already escaped for parts unknown?
The cost could be reduced by finding some way to incorporate a waste stream into the construction - something that was otherwise on its way to landfill, or the ashes of Untermenschen.
Around the statue of Liberty.
Who qualifies as untermenschsen, Muslims, Democrats, Business Rivals?
I think, if the thing must be done, a “ha-ha” should be built. A), because it would look slightly nicer, and B), because I would love to see and hear that term plastered all over the news. 
And then we could stock it with laser-adorned sharks if it gets enough rain.
Worked really well in Vietnam right? Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it…
Speaking of which, I remember that there was already an attempt to build a wall, and that it failed for technical reasons. Technology has marched on for 10 (???) yerars since then, so it’s reasonable to review the program: if it was a good idea then, perhaps it’s still a good idea.
Also, who wants to build a simple concrete wall? Is that really being suggested? That’s an insane idea. (Unless you think that America needs more Keynesian economics, in which case… I still think it’s an insane idea)
And apparently some official now claims the wall will be built in 2 years. Isn’t that like, building 5 miles a day? Building one hundred yards per hour?
That’s because some of it is going to be invisible:
I suggest we leave those details to the death squads.
Even if they have wall and guard tower every 50 or 100 feet!! I fear people will start digging tunnels that what a lot of drug smugglers are doing now.
The country generates enough non degradable unrecycled garbage in less than a year probably to build a solid structure that size
*And the wall gets higher, so you could not see,
I said the wall gets higher, so you could not see.
Well the lightning flash, the cannon roar, the ground begin to shake,
The people wondered but they heard no more, but the Big Chief will not wait.*