Now here’s a creative suggestion for our southern border that actually makes a lot of sense ~ 1,954-mile ‘energy park’ would pay for border wall, create economic boom ~

A new plan to undertake the largest infrastructure project in world history would build a 1,945-mile “energy park” that would pay for itself, deploy sophisticated security to the sometimes dangerous area and turn a largely deserted area into an economic engine.
 
The plan just released would also build on the cooperative relations between Washington and Mexico City to have both countries build the energy wall.
 
“Just like the transcontinental railroad transformed the United States in the 19th century, or the Interstate system transformed the 20th century, this would be a national infrastructure project for the 21st century,” said Luciano Castillo, Purdue University’s Kenninger Professor of Renewable Energy and Power Systems.

 
This plan is super-ambitious, would be a massive undertaking – but hey – we did put a man on the moon.
 
Conceived by a group of 28 prestigious engineers and scientists from across the country, the energy corridor would consist of ~

… a complex train of solar energy panels, wind turbines, natural gas pipelines, desalination facilities that together would create an industrial park along the border unlike anything found anywhere else in the world.

The facilities would provide the desired border security, the researchers say, because utility facilities and infrastructure must be well-protected. The connected energy parks would also be an economic driver, both in the construction of the facilities themselves and in the businesses that would be attracted to the region by cheap electricity and plentiful water resources.

 
Sounds like a win-win doesn’t it? A uniquely-American, inventive, solution to a decades-old, very complex problem.
So of course The Swamp will never let it happen