Posted on 10/23/2017 10:31:47 PM PDT by Kevin in California
President Trump will reportedly decide which is best. Meanwhile, MSNBC did a report about the prototypes and whether a more secure border wall is even necessary, and during the segment, something interesting happened:
Wall bkmk
You mean those darn”asylum seekers” illegally entered the country?
I can’t get Twitter feeds to play video. Is there another non-Twitter video link ? I can’t find it on YouTube.
I think America is the ONLY major country in the entire world, which does not enforce it’s own borders.
Anywhere.
What struck me was the absurdly low height of portions of the current fence. they have pushed up enough dirt that it is only waist high.
They also attempted note that you cannot build a wall on every mile of the border. That is irrelevant. As Salena Zito has noted repeatedly, take Trump seriously not literally.
We don’t need a wall across every mile, we need it to canalize would be migrants into areas that either less hospitable for crossing or easier to monitor. That simplifies the task of the Border Patrol and makes is harder for smugglers (of everything, not just people) by raising the cost of doing business and increasing the likelihood they are intercepted.
You can’t “seal” a border, what you can do is make illegal crossings so risky and expensive that most people are deterred from making the attempt.
Almost All of Europe has open borders...that’s why they are in trouble!
(Dear God, am I gonna regret suggesting that!)
Salena is worth following.
“Almost All of Europe has open borders...that’s why they are in trouble!”
They do have a nice, shiny, fence of massive amounts of barbed wire on Hungary’s southern border. Hard to know what for...after all, no one is trying to cross there these days.
(liberal logic)
Get this...
“EU plans migrant quotas forcing states to ‘share’ burden”
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, a leading hardliner on immigration, described the commission proposals as mad and pledged to defy Brussels. He said: “The European concept of ‘someone letting immigrants into their country’ and then ‘distributing’ them among the other member states is a mad and unfair idea.”
Brussels is proposing to invoke emergency mechanisms by the end of the month that will oblige the 28 countries to share the numbers of “persons in clear need of international protection” and “to ensure a fair and balanced participation of all member states to this common effort. This step will be the precursor of a lasting solution”.
The EU doesn’t seem to be backing down.
Soon Hungary, Poland, and others like them will have to make a choice - either suck it up and take the terrorists, or be kicked out of the EU.
If they chose to be kicked out, then what...I think they’ll team up with Russia and create their own version of a Common Market, one where they’ll just stick to economics and let the countries decide their own policies relating to other matters.
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