How many times are you going to post the EXACT SAME response?
Since Texas has a river (admittedly really low in spots), I’ve never favored a fence.
Your argument that people can climb it is silly though.
In computer security we talk about raising the costs of intrusion. We can’t prevent intrusion, but we want to raise the costs to a point where it is no longer attractive to try. If I’m guarding the recipe for coca-cola or KFC, or personal financial data, I spend a lot because their worth a lot. I don’t spend a lot to protect personal emails, because Sally emailing Peggy for lunch is not going to entice hackers to spend a lot breaking in. I need to raise the bar enough that the costs exceed rewards.
I can spend a lot on a fence that will make it really expensive to climb. I can make it unclimbable, 20’ high, and put concertina wire on top. Sure, if somebody brings two 30’ ladders and a bunch of other gear, they can get over it. They’ll also stick out like sore thumbs and give BP a chance to respond. Surveillance just became real easy, and the costs of crossing just skyrocketed.
You doubt it? Look at the Israeli fences or the fences around compounds in Iraq and Afghanistan.
BTW, you might not recognize this, its called a conversation. It happens sometimes when you don’t robo-post.
Well, sure, out along 1200 miles of wilderness someone with a ladder is going to stick out like a sore thumb TO WHOM? The rattlesnakes and lizards? Son, I lived on the Black Gap Game reserve for five years, there isn’t anybody who gives a spit out there for over 100 miles from the east or west of the ranger’s house which sits right above the Rio Grande close enough to throw rocks over in it from the front porch...neither the mountain goats, puma’s, or the blue indigo’s gave a spit about who dunked their toes in the river. My kids were flown out of there every day to attend school at Presidio, just like the children of the many ranchers who live along that border.
And if you think concertina wire is going to stop anybody, have you ever seen a Mexican national work a pair of wire cutters? They can erect a mile of eight strand barbed wire fence over your head in half a day and not even pop a wire or cut a finger. You are just fairly naive, Son!
BTW, Israel’s widest border is less than 70 miles long, highly populated, mostly. Why do you think they are vulnerable to rocket launchers. How do you think Hamas slipped over that border and cut the throats of a whole family and nobody even knew they were there?
There, you see how conversation goes when you visit reality? Pardon me, if I hit the post button twice. I thought I missed it the first time...didn’t mean to offend your little sensitivities with an honest mistake.