bripat9643
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- Apr 1, 2011
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You're a moron, of course. Walls and fences work. That's why you're opposed to it.The same people stupid enough to bring only one ladder.The wall in Israel works.Show me a thirty foot high wall and I'll show you a thirty one foot tall ladder.
The wall is a grand pandering exercise aimed squarely at paranoid xenophobes, otherwise know as Trump's base constituents.
By the time someone setups up their 30 foot ladder on the wall, the border guards will be on him. Furthermore, who is going to jump down from the top of a 30 foot wall?
Or a rope.
I wish people would go back and look at the tunnels built under the fences and walls currently at the southern border.
For that matter, look at the tunnel Chapo's people built over what? more than a mile. With AC and furniture for resting, couches to put your feet up. And Chapo was under 24 hour guard and his cell was video taped 24/7.
There are actually two issues at the southern border: labor and drugs.
Both are the fault of the US.
We invite them here. We need their labor and we buy their drugs.
Until those two facts are effectively addressed, this will never change.
Today, Henry is assistant chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector. He says apprehensions here are down 95 percent, from 100,000 a year to 5,000 a year, largely because the single strand of cable marking the border was replaced by double — and in some places, triple — fencing.
The first fence, 10 feet high, is made of welded metal panels. The second fence, 15 feet high, consists of steel mesh, and the top is angled inward to make it harder to climb over. Finally, in high-traffic areas, there's also a smaller chain-link fence. In between the two main fences is 150 feet of "no man's land," an area that the Border Patrol sweeps with flood lights and trucks, and soon, surveillance cameras.
"Here in San Diego, we have proven that the border infrastructure system does indeed work," Henry says. "It is highly effective."
The first fence, 10 feet high, is made of welded metal panels. The second fence, 15 feet high, consists of steel mesh, and the top is angled inward to make it harder to climb over. Finally, in high-traffic areas, there's also a smaller chain-link fence. In between the two main fences is 150 feet of "no man's land," an area that the Border Patrol sweeps with flood lights and trucks, and soon, surveillance cameras.
"Here in San Diego, we have proven that the border infrastructure system does indeed work," Henry says. "It is highly effective."