[Pelham]

It’s a difference of scale and not type. A thousand mile border would have been difficult to police compared to a port.

[DoodleDawg]

It’s a difference of scale and not type. A thousand mile border would have been difficult to police compared to a port.

And hundreds of millions of dollars worth of imports would have been impossible to smuggle over the border, given that there were a limited number of rivers and railroads to ship them on.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

So what you’re projecting is a southern economy where smuggling into a neighboring country is a major activity.