I wouldn't close it, I'd just implement an inspection regimen so thorough that a man in boxer shorts carrying a tack hammer would need five days to get through. Neither national party gives a damn about immigration law enforcement. They're both waiting patiently for the people to forget about it again, like we did after Reagan signed the 1986 reform bill legalizing 4 million illegals. The 'grand bipartisan compromise' this time will be to legalize 12 million this time in return for stringing a strand of rusty barbed wire somewhere between El Paso and San Diego, where not even village idiots try to cross. The big money in both parties need the cheap labor and Nancy and friends need the future government dependents.

I wonder, will he take $5B to find and deport visa overstays instead of the wall. That's where the bulk of illegals come from.

And that’s why it’s useless to negotiate any deal with the US. Trump won’t honour it. His word means nothing.

And open up more H-1B for FAANGs too...

Good. Build the Wall. Period.

Profit and prosperity are secondary to Trump’s base. Purity ethnically and separation from others is more important to many. Authoritarians never value commerce , for it creates power independent of themselves.

I think we should bomb Mexico, and take all their gold! Just like Obomber did to Libya.