You are the Republican, what government agency turns down money. I wonder if they had a choice, the wall or a crap ton more agents, and a boatload more vehicles (including helicopters) and drones, which they would choose. Is the wall what they want, or the only real large increase in spending all they are being offered?
If you were an agent and someone offers you a wall and that is it, so the choice is a wall or do exactly what you are doing today, I get it. You want the wall.
I know from reading the article below, the article below has a left slant. But I suspect this part is true, the US has 2 very different programs. In Central America, virtually everyone comes in through the political asylum method. We do not allow option 2, the Cold War fleeing communism holdover.
Option 2 is we allow people in refugee camps to apply for refugee status and come in. We only allow so many, but it is how the Somalis came in to Minnesota.
So for a real game changer, eliminate asylum as the main professor central America, allow them to come in through refugee status. They go to refugee camps and apply. Take fewer from these other countries and more from Central America. Suddenly they have a huge vested interest in finding refugee camps and applying. The broken by too many applicants asylum courts are greatly relieved.
Cold War politics continues to shut out Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans from the US Refugee Admissions Program. That needs to change.
www.justsecurity.org
But my point holds, those 3 men climbing a ladder without Border Patrol ever appearing proves even without a wall we need more of what I am talking about. To play off someone's Ukraine analysis, as much as it takes for as long as it takes isn't a strategy. I have given you a strategy, go from asylum to refugee.