Solving the Problem is More Important than Saving Face

  When it comes to what to do at the border, do we make a wise decision or do we seek to protect our image?
   My thought is, the drugs are for the most part not coming with those sneaking across the border. No, they are pouring thru the main gate, hidden on the vehicles of those coming legally through our ports of entry.
   So, if the idea is to not worry about our image, but to do the right thing, then what do we do? Do we build the wall just to save face? Do we build it just because we said we would even though we can see it isn't the wisest way to solve the problem?
   Or, do we do what Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are suggesting and spend the money on high-tech devices? I do not know what exactly they have in mind when they suggest high-tech stuff.  Surely, at least part of that is high-tech stuff to stop the undocumented from sneaking across. But, I can see that high-tech devices to detect the drugs from coming through the ports of entry would be a wise course of action. Couple that with more drug-sniffing dogs.
   If the major part of the problem is at the ports of entry with the vehicles entering legally, then spend the money where the money is wisest spent.