As long as there are spaces for tauntings.
Now.
13:48 video, at the website.
Some of the models look good. Some seem to me, to be just elaborate in a way, to make them ineffective as a real barrier.
But there are plenty of people who know what works, and what will not work. They will select a good model.
Now, is the time. Select one, and get started.
Don’t like the Washington Post wall.
As long as there are spaces for tauntings.
F***king Mexicans! Fix your own damn country instead of always figuring how to f**k up mine!
Spread the word; Mandatory 10 years for 1st time illegal crossers. $10K/head bounty. Oh, then build the wall.
Whether or not a wall will be effective depends on whether or not those trying to get through or over the wall have experience in construction, work with steel, masonry, excavation or similar skilled labor. A lack of employers willing to be punished for hiring them would stop them, though.
Height and depth are no match for a ramp.
Let’s just tell liberals the wall is there to keep Russians out.
Are the prototypes in San Ysindro or TTown?
If in TTown, kind of like allowing the KGB to build the US Embassy in Moscow or even OUR FBI/CIA/NSA build the Russian embassy in DC
It would also make for a hard landing for anyone who fell off the wall. Falling 30 feet onto concrete is no joke.
Precast panels could be laid on the ground, if you wanted an ankle-turning impact area, that would be an even harder landing than flat concrete:
Once the prototypes are built, the BP get to try to get through them, over them, under them, throw the book at them. Is one better for this terrain or that terrain? Can they last at least 1/2hr before breach? They’ll make recommendations for improvements, and then the pouring concrete starts. Or something like that.
Walls are stupid and expensive. They can be defeated and scaled in areas that are not patrolled. It may be a little difficult but it can be done if you have time.
Mine field are 100% effective. They are cheap and easy and very quick to deploy. Put the signs out in multiple languages that say the next 300 meters are a mine field and if you cross it you will die. Problem solved.
This seems insanely cruel. Without doubt some will try to cross and die but it will be very very few particularly after the first few deaths. The word gets around quickly.
Each year many hundreds die in the deserts of California, New Mexico and particularly Arizona when they try to cross the border in isolated places. The desert is a killer in the summer. You need water and it is a lot of water if you are walking for two or three days in the heat. In 2016 the known deaths of illegal border crossing in the desert was 316. I grew up in the desert and know how hot and vast it is. I assure the real number is much higher but I have no idea how much higher. There are many bleached and white bones out in the desert that none know about.
What is more humane I ask? A mine field that kills a few people and after such no one will dare cross, or a barbed wire fence on the Arizona border that anyone can cross and die in the desert. Many cross that barbed wire fence and die in the desert or at the hands of the coyote smugglers.
Both are bad, but which in more humane?
ps
Grew up on the border, speak Spanish, married to a Mexican National now a USA citizen with multiple degrees from Texas Universities and not in the social sciences. I know of which I speak.
So far every design that I’ve see will SERIOUSLY slow down anyone trying to get across. And likely slow them enough so that the Border Patrol can catch them. After all, it’s not like we’re going to build the wall and then abandon the border.
Sounds like a plan to me!
It’s probably too late to do any good. Let’s just invade all the way down to Panama and take it back. Use the Canal as our new Southern border.
Need more alligator motes.
Crushed dreams of a 21st Century Aztlan. Boo hoo hoo
Go fix you’re own damm country! Its called a border, its to keep out ideology as well as other things.
The look awesome!
Laser guided, infrared sensor automatic gun terrents every 300 feet where placing border patrol is not pratical.
Used drones to patrol more open areas.
Use alligators , barbed wire, glass inbedded into the top layers of the top of the wall.
Embedded 30 feet from the walls on both sides heat sensing, motion semsing with the aid of camreas that would apply a infrared heat gun as a deterrence to even get near the wall.
No wall will work, unless combined with observation and armed response.
Even a short wall will work, if wall climbers know that there are riflemen watching the wall, with orders to shoot.