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Ha.

Maybe the wall is not so much about keeping people out, but also about keeping people in? and monetize the doors either way?

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Huh? Americans needing healthcare are walking into Mexico? And outside the standard ports of exit/entry?

Land border is a legal port of entry/exit that thousands of people cross everyday in this country.

There are 328 official legal points of entry into the United States where documentation is required. 9-11 changed a lot of things in the US, and this is one of them. Border patrol agents (of any nationality) are not fun to spend time with. Also immigration attorneys are expensive.

That's my point. The wall would be there to physically enforce specific mandatory points of entry.

And I don't find it far-fetched now that Trump would make friends financially benefit from the wall construction first, then from future private-handling of ports of entrance.

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