Nobody who argues for “fencing off our entire border” actually supports fencing the whole border. It’s just a political attack to help their candidates.
Nobody will build a single mile of fence up the pacific coast, or up the gulf coast. Whatever fence is built will come to a stop before the beaches. Anybody who wants can simply walk around the fence at low tide, or swim a shorter distance than going over the Rio Grande. Or they could get someone to take them in a boat.
But nobody wants to build a fence — because while they are CLULESS about what it means to be a rancher or a farmer and have river access, they all love going to the beach to frolic and play. And they know a fence would keep them from their beaches.
They also don’t support a fence with Canada. Why not? because they know that there aren’t nearly as many people trying to sneak through Canada. They understand fully the concept of a “strategic fence” — fences where people are ACTUALLY crossing the border.
But when Perry agrees with them, they act like he doesn’t want to secure the border at all, because they like some other candidate. And Perry does a lousy job of explaining his position, because it is so obvious.
Oh my God, this is one of the STUPIDEST straw men by the open-borders crowd.
There is no point in securing the border, they'll just come in boats instead! We should just give up on the land border, because they'll just come by sea.
Oh wait, I know, if we monitor the boat traffic, the Mexicans will just build rocket ships and parachute into the US!
So it is pointless to secure the land border because they'll just come by sea, and it's pointless to guard the sea, because they'll just come by rocket ship!
No, no, I take it back.
The stupidest straw man argument is "you can't secure the Mexican border if you don't equally secure the Canadian border cause it jusn't isn't fair!!"
Your comments are right on. Everyone for a fence has vision of the Berlin Wall or the Great Wall of China. People were killed if they tried to scale those walls. All they have to look at is the border between North and South Korea. If a wall would work there, they would have built it.