Securing the southern border has been a heavily debated issue for decades. While one side argues that the border needs to be closed-off and reinforced with military-grade weapons, the other argues for immigration policy reform, which would make the process of legally entering the country, as well as the path toward citizenship, more efficient.
Ex-president Donald Trump campaigned on building a wall at the southern border, which he insisted Mexico would pay for.
While the Trump administration allocated $15 billion — which was taken from the Defense Department’s budget — to fund the construction of the wall, only about 458 miles were built, most of which in places that already had an existing barrier in place, according to U.S. News.