[nhwingut]

I know HotAir has gone full GOPe, and is totally anti Trump, but I still thought this was satire. However, the writer posted this in the comments section.

FTR, no one told me to write this piece, I picked the topic because I started doing research on the current border fence/wall situation. The “build a wall” rhetoric is nice, but just chanting that isn’t, IMO, going to get anywhere. There’s geological considerations to make, plus private property considerations to make. Should the Sonoran Desert fence be higher? Probably. But I’m also in favor of using more technology on the border too. “Just” having a wall/fence won’t solve the problem.
Taylor Millard on August 16, 2015 at 1:55 PM

[tcrlaf]

BUILD A WALL...
Patrol it like the Israeli’s do.

I think the REAL fear is what ending the free flow of drugs from Mexico would do to the inner-city economies.

[LongWayHome]

Technology on the border means let’s do nothing & pull the wool over the eyes of the public.

[kabar]

[HarleyLady27]

I wonder if this author of this article has talked to Trump...does he know what Trump is wanting in a ‘wall’? Does he know what Trump wants it to look like, is it going to be electric, or lazer, or what?

Before you tear someone apart about something, first find out if that person has any one on one dealings with the person they are tearing apart, or are they just rabbling to hear their jaws rattle?????

[Black Agnes]

That’s not a wall. Thats a ‘good neighbor’ fence. If we only had a ‘good neighbor’ to the South it might actually work.

[FrdmLvr]

Then FINISH it!

[Dr. Sivana]

Well, I thought Trump wanted the biggest, best wall ever. So, I’d check out the Great Wall’s specs, make it a foot (or more)higher and six inches thicker.

[MNDude]

FUHA!!

[Tupelo]

Wall/fence sure works in the Yuma sector. And the San Diego sector. I think both human & drug smuggling is down over 80%in both since the fence was built. Maybe more.
Most if not all of the ranchers & residents along the border will welcome the fence along with additional BP presence.
This guy is throwing out the usual straw man arguments.

[LostInBayport]

I am badly out of shape and do poorly in hot weather, but I think I could get over that wall.

Especially if I had a decent ladder.

[tumblindice]

Taylor Millard: cuckservative. Who cares what this establishment lick-spittle thinks.

[shalom aleichem]

BS!

[nhwingut]

I’m still not totally buying this as serious. No one can be this stupid.

[Biggirl]

I think what Mr. Trump wants is a wall that looks more like Israel’s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier

[Leep]

Two american women scale “wall” in 18 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjKBjM1ngw

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The other pictures are stupid, but this guy went full retard times 2 using THIS image of a "border wall"!!

[upchuck]

Those pics at the beginning of this article are not walls. Fences is more like it. Affording minimal, if any, real protection.

Now this, this is a WALL:

And this is what it will take. Serious, no fooling around substance

[EternalVigilance]

What a load. There are vast sections of the southern border that you can simply walk across. And what fence is there is is mostly so easy to climb that a child can do it.

[Yardstick]

He makes some reasonable points. We probably don’t need much in areas where the terrain itself is an effective barrier. But no doubt there’s still a lot that could be done to beef up or extend the wall in other areas to make it more effective. Do this plus tighten up our immigration policy and we’ll be in better shape.

[Rusty0604]

You know Obama’s alligator moat may not be such a bad idea. Put a few alligator in the Rio Grand. Ranchers may lose a few cows but they could water elsewhere and save money without the illegals vandalizing their property. I’m just talking off the top of my head.