Do we need a fence to stop illegal trespassing into the United States?

No ! Just need to enforce the laws we already have..

I would rather see us focus on "common sense" solutions to illegal immigration. Such as English as the language of the government, no benefits for non-citizens, eliminate the "anchor baby" rule, etc.

I'm not opposed to LEGAL immigration (my own family is predominately Dutch-German on my father's side and Scots-Irish on my mother's side). I just don't see why we, as a Nation, tolerate someone breaking into our house, taking our hard-earned possessions, and then demand we pay for their livelihood.

Does the Vatican have walls? Does the White House have walls? Did the wall work in Berlin for decades? Yes, they work in some instances, but when you are talking about 2200 miles with insurmountable terrain, Native American sovereign lands and the ability to tunnel under any fence, or, as proven, climb over existing fences/walls, it is not feasible. What has to be done is find a way to stop the magnets drawing illegals, by that, I mean all illegal alien/immigrants to our country. Trump made a big mistake focusing on Mexicans. They compromise about 60% of the illegal population. The issue is valid, but the identifying of a single group of people was a major error.

My apologies for a second shot at this! If the many generations who came to the US had not learned english (as did my family) we would never have been able to accomplish the feats that this nation has. Imagine service mebers speaking multiple languages but not the same, imagine the same for polie, fire, community service. A common language would help to solve many issues, we say that we have cultural divides and a lack of understanding of one another, maybe just maybe, it starts with a common language.

Sorry for the chatter.

No, just stop the incentives for coming in. Take away automatic citizenship. Enforce taxation at the point of wages or at payment of purchase. Any good paying job should ensure no SSN fraud as well as housing. Thus ensuring that he work that we do want to farm out to other countries is the only work available.

A Mexican wall is the most inane idea to ever catch on in Big Gubberment. Humans are monkeys. They will climb or dig, or -- get this -- simply take a five-minute boat ride in either pond to circumvent the end of the wall.

Dumb, dumb, dumb idea. Illegal aliens are a problem to be sure, but a wall is not the answer.

CPT Jack Durish - Captain; I agree that it should be up to a person who is claiming any benefit from the government to establish that they are actually entitled to that benefit.

If a person is illegally in the United States of America and is claiming a government benefit, then the government has the right to mitigation and, in this case, that would involve removing the claimant from a position where they are acting illegally.

Terrorist illegally crossing the boarder don't care about of the language in Missouri nor do they care about welfare.

Just a thought on 'walls.' Everyone, including Trump, believes the wall should be physical in nature, built along our southern border. To me, a wall is a barrier and can be physical or a manifestation (like the wall a runner hits during a marathon). So, there should be both types of 'walls.' Physically, we should secure our border with material, men and the means to keep unwanted people, drugs, etc. out of our country. But, we should also have a wall that makes those desiring to illegally enter our country, hit a wall. The metaphysical wall should be made of laws, that are clear, universal and enforced at every level. These laws could include the following:
1. If anyone should enter or remain in our country illegally, they are ineligible for employment by any person, company or government agency. If found to be employed by an individual or company, the employer will lose their license to do business within the borders of the United States, as well as with private or public customers, for a duration of 1 year. If an employer is found to violate this measure more than once, the company will be seized and sold to the highest bidder at a public auction (lock, stock and barrel).
2. If anyone should enter or remain in our country illegally, they are ineligible for any government assistance (foodstamps, welfare, unemployment, housing, education, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, etc.). Any illegal immigrant found to be receiving government benefits will be charged with fraud and a bill for reimbursement sent to the country of origin.
3. All countries with citizens illegally residing in our country, will be notified that they must remove their citizens within 90 days or forfeit all current and future US government provided benefits (military aid and assistance, foreign aid, favored trade status, etc.). Additionally, a bill seeking reimbursement for the cost of providing for illegal immigrants will be submitted to these same countries.
4. Any elected or unelected government official found to have violated the above laws will be charged with treason and upon a finding of guilt, will serve no less than 10 years in prison and upon release, loss of citizenship and relocation to a foreign country of the US government's choosing.

Borders, Language, Culture. These three things help make a country. List English as official language, take away all the freebees would be great starts. But this should have been doing YEARS ago.