We should have boarded up that border after 911. Still can't understand why we didn't. 
If there was ever a case for the need for eminent domain, this is it. A proper, functioning government would buy out all the landholders within 25 miles of our southern border, and convert it to a weapons testing range, for the full gamut of ordnance, from mines and booby traps to nukes and persistent nerve gas. Nogales and Nuevo Loredo should have to pay annual protection money, to avoid getting irradiated - or worse.
Yeah, I know; the government which currently obtains is considerably less than the above ideal, but hey, a guy can dream, right?
