text: if the wall is built on the border, is the government going to hire illegals to do the job?   it won't be built directly on the border.  it will be built slightly inside the us territory.  so i doubt illegals will be hired. in fact, they will sub-contract it out to a haliburton subsidiary and we will pay $50 / hour plus $100 per diem for guys to stand around and watch the one illegall *they* hired to build the wall.  and currenly, the border is the rio grande river.  mexico diverted it a bit.  a park the us had built on the river's edge became mexican property because the new route for the river put the park on the southern side of the river.