A good question

From Mark Steyn via The Cassandra Page:

The same people who say that government is a mighty power for good that can extinguish every cigarette butt and detoxify every cheeseburger and even change the very climate of the planet back to some Edenic state so that the water that falleth from heaven will land as ice and snow, and polar bears on distant continents will frolic as they did in days of yore, the very same people say: Building a border fence? Enforcing deportation orders? Can't be done, old boy. Pie-in-the-sky.

Good question. Why is it that those with unlimited faith in government think that the logistically straightforward task of locating a group of people who are not that hard to find and moving them from point A to point B and building a fence poses insurmountable obstacles?

To those who say that a border fence would cost too much I ask this. Would a fence from Brownsville, TX to Imperial Beach, CA not be cheaper than building government subsidized housing for the up to 60 million people that this "immigration reform" legislation will invite into the nation? When you add the costs of the schools which will have to be built and the teachers who will have to be hired and the hospitals and clinics which will have to be built to treat their injuries and illnesses and the police we will have to hire and equip to deal with the crime they will bring with them and the prisons which will have to be constructed to house their drunk drivers and wife beaters and drug dealers and gang members and other predatory criminals.

Doesn't a fence seem cheap in comparison?