Virtual infrastructure for border security could be accomplished at a fraction of the cost of a physical wall bolster real time monitoring, detection, and response and bridge the digital divide for law enforcement along the border. Building a virtual or smart wall with fiber optic lines along the border, supported by technology, drones, motion sensors, cameras, etc.If Texas is to be committed to going down this path, as lawmakers who represent districts along the Texas-Mexico border, we suggest the following smart measures as a starting point: The state also should hear from border lawmakers. If Texas, however, is going to be in the business of border security in the meantime, the state needs to be accountable, transparent and smart with taxpayer dollars. The bottom line is that Congress needs to act immediately to pass immigration reform and provide resources to stop the criminal elements from crossing the border. The new federal administration is working on addressing the root causes of these migration waves that stress our borders, but this will take time. This expensive proposition would overfill local prisons, which already are stretched thin-with non-dangerous persons and separate families looking for refuge and the American dream. But, Texas shouldn’t circumvent federal immigration and asylum laws by creating new ways to criminalize and to jail undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers. Anyone who commits a crime, whether immigrant or legal resident, should be arrested. A physical wall made of cement or steel slats is a 3rd century solution to a 21st century migration problem. Building a physical wall from El Paso to Brownsville would be the most expensive and least effective way to achieve border security, and it would be a colossal waste of taxpayer money. Bush, has already built fencing and walls in the highest traffic areas. The federal government, dating back to President George W. None of that money was earmarked for a border wall. This session, for example, Texas appropriated another $1.1 billion for border security. For years, however, Texas has supplemented federal efforts by spending billions of state taxpayer money on this federal responsibility, instead of on other pressing state needs. Lawmakers from both political parties agree border security is a federal responsibility.
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