For most of the history of the USA we did not even have a border patrol.
We need to work together with our good neighbors as a team on issues which are important to all of us, we can work together to fight terrorism, and to stop illegal drugs, etc.
And we need to make it possible for our neighbors to peacefully, and legally, live, and work, and go to school, and stuff, in the USA, just as people from the USA need to be allowed to live, and work, and go to school, and stuff, in Mexico and in Canada, etc. Many people want to move to Mexico when they retire. And many Americans move to Canada for film and television jobs, and for other things (We need to bring those jobs back to California, but they have a right to shoot films and television in Canada). Also, many Americans want foreign brides, and husbands, and we need to make it easy for family members, etc. People need to be able to move about freely, the same as how a person from Ireland can go live in Italy. We are all allies here in the Western Hemisphere, we do not need walls.
We need for our Statue of Liberty to represent what we stand for as Americans, not a thirty foot wall on our southern border.
We won two world wars, and the Cold War, without building any walls, and we do not need any walls now.
We need to work together as a team, we need teamwork, not walls.
Salute,
Tony V.