frigidweirdo
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- Mar 7, 2014
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The point here is what you want to achieve and what is the most cost effective way of achieving this. Do you want to stop people climbing over the fence? Barbed wire and the like, perhaps double fence. Do you want to stop people getting under the fence? Then there are ways of deal with this too.
At the moment people are simply saying a wall would be good without saying what they think is needed that doesn't happen right now. They're saying a wall because it's simple.
No, saying a wall won't work is saying that it doesn't change anything from the current situation. If you want something to be effective then you need to find out what the problems are, what possible solutions there, which is the most cost effective for what you want to achieve. Trump just says "wall". There's not been a decent thinking about it, other than he knows some people would be happy because they like simple solutions that sound good, rather than are good.
You are talking in circles now.
If you can't go over the wall, and you can't dig under the wall, how could a wall not work?
The only people left would be those who overstay their Visa's and work permits. If we could at least eliminate the border crossers, we could dedicate much more time to getting the Visa people.
Like I said, if it were up to me, it would be a five year minimum prison sentence for anybody caught here illegally. But of course, nobody would do that left or right.
How are you going to get a wall to not be dug under exactly? How deep are you going to go?
Israel's expensive "wall" isn't that deep, doesn't need to be, they didn't make it so that it couldn't be dug under. They want it to stop snipers. They found that a fence works.
If you want to stop people going under, there are far better ways than a wall.
How high does a wall have to be to stop people going over it? Why would a wall work better than a fence? There might be occasions where it does, but if you're going to try and get through, you use tools that can get you through. Make a wall out of concrete and people will simply break the concrete. Make it more sophisticated and it's going to cost you an absolute fortune.
And I did notice before that you had actually gone for a non-wall option. But if you ask me questions I will try and answer them.