Problem with the border wall. Has anyone considered?

That the Texas-Mexico boundary is marked by the Rio Grande River? Obviously the wall cannot be built on the Mexican side of the river. So how would the environmental, recreational, and water usage rights impact the area? I've gone tubing down this river. Wouldn't a wall effectively just give the river to Mexico? (The US and Mexico share the waters of this river under a series of agreements administered by the joint US-Mexico Boundary and Water Commission.)
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I haven't heard anyone talk about this. Am I the first?

Answer:
What benefits would the wall provide, shamim316? Walls can be blown apart, tunneled under, or scaled. Besides, why are we so intent on keeping 'illegal immigrants' out when virtually all of us are descendants of America's first illegal immigrants that started coming over here 400 years ago last month? -RKO- 06/08/07
I would think that is a very small concern if you think of the major benefits that such a wall would provide.
Turn it into a moat.
I will give Mexico the river if they will take back their illegal immigrants
I LOVE the wall idea. I just wish the *^&$# politicians would build it!
Just put the wall places that are hard to patrol and where the river services the people or fauna patrol that with the border patrol. The wall is to help stop the croosers.
No, you aren't. We would still navigate it and there would be gates for livestock but they would be manned by border patrol, likely. Environmentally, there are millions of pounds of trash and human feces left by illegal immigrants who are driving the wildlife from their habitats in any event, so in many many ways this would be much better for the environment. The US public is now banned from many border areas of US parks, as well, due to such frequent use of those areas by human smugglers and drug smugglers. It sure would be nice to have those back.

But I would support giving those who live on the river compensation in areas where the fence will go. Mind you, lack of drug smugglers and human smugglers running through their yard has to be of some benefit.

The trashy area near the border in San Diego now has a Neiman Marcus backed against the border fence installed there. Look at the impacts where the fence has already been installed. Dramatic drop in crime, and soaring property values.

It's all good.
dont blame the US...blame mexico for abusing our immigration system.
a wall will only make the U.S. look more xenophobic than Nazi germany, and then it would probably get scaled or blown up or it would have holes in it.
i guess they will put armed security there. did you know we might be able to rent that section from mexico? they are money hungry in mexico.
Mexico has been disrespecting our border rights for so long, I don't think we would be wrong in taking some of their portion of the river.

At the very least, it'd be some economical payback for their disregard of our border/territorial laws.

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