Posted on 08/25/2015 9:21:39 AM PDT by Rusty0604
You really have to marvel at the stupidity of progressives and now is one of those times.
One of the main reasons Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls is because he’s saying what many Americans are thinking about illegal immigration and border security.
National Journal columnist Clare Foran worries that if a wall is built on the border, as Trump has suggested, people who try to cross into America illegally could be injured.
Her new column is truly stunning:
“ Donald Trump’s Border Wall Could Have Deadly Consequences
Donald Trump wants America to build a permanent wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. “We’ll have a great wall. We’ll call it the Great Wall of Trump,” the real estate mogul told Fox Business recently.
If that ever happens, the consequences could be deadly for the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who attempt to cross the border each year, many of whom are unlikely to be deterred by even the greatest of walls.
(Excerpt) Read more at progressivestoday.com ...
Poor demwitted Clare is going to meet face to face with a bulldozer one day and attempt to hug it.
“dangerous” is the point!
It’s supposed to be a DETERRENT.
As in, don’t try to cross it because it’s DANGEROUS.
Shall I assume the Authoress of this Article locks her front Door?
None of those actually address the greatest weakness of fixed fortifications though.... that the enemy (if they aren’t stupid) can just go around them.
I'm surprised that Clare can feed herself, let alone write for a publication.
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A combination of tactical defenses is what is needed, wire and mines play a large role in that. The problem is that we have a large border to defend with limited resources. Use a method to deny access and funnel invaders to where we have men. This is a classic tactic implemented with mines. I advocate the use of multiple tactics, each matching terrain, numbers of invaders and our available resources. That includes the use of walls in some circumstances.
The other major deterrent is implemented through no employment, education or government services on this side of the border.
Those thick acrylic plexiglass sheets in fron of the cashiers at the 711 are dangerous to thieves..
Also car windows can hurt thieves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxSTDTVNpK4
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A “great” wall will work for much of the Southern border.
However, in Texas there are areas like the Big Bend that have many natural defenses due to topography, so would only require lesser barriers.
Further East along the border in Texas, ranchers and farmers own the land. The middle of the Rio Grande river is the border. These land owners pump water from the river for their crops and livestock. They have been opposed, so far, to selling off portions of their land and cutting off their access to water for the building of a fence.
Those lands do not belong to the State or the US gov’t., so that presents a problem for whomever is Prez that wants to build the fence.
It would be folly to cut off farmers' and ranchers' access to the river in a semi-arid area.
Consequently, we can learn from Israel -- who has extensive experience in such matters.
Where the Jordan forms the border between Israel and Jordan, Israel faces the same problem. Their solution has been a combination of audio/visual technology, highly mobile troops and a series of outposts -- manned on an unpredictable cycle.
The only "fence" is about a quarter-mile from the river and consists of hogwire mounted on 6' metal posts, topped with a double-strand of barbed wire and frequently interrupted by gates...
Yes I know about the ranchers and their need for water. But I have read that these same ranchers have been prevented and sometimes prosecuted from protecting their private property from the illegals. They trash, kill the cattle, and sometimes burglarized and the feds stick up for the illegals.
And a mine field is a fixed fortification. See the DMZ.
Talk about someone not being well read.
A barrier of concertina wire with warnings signs (that’s the humane part of me),
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I’m fine with that, as long as the signs are printed in English only.
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