Those fences are monitored 24/7.
The drug cartels are getting more and more sophistcated in subverting our efforts to block their passage. We develop technology and physical barriers to stop them and it works for a while. But then the cartels put their millions/billions into circumventing our solutions.
Two examples: The drug cartels progressed from small planes and fishing boats to submarines ... SUBMARINES! Their tunnels have progressed from shovel-made holes of a few feet to miles of passageways complete with electricity, ventilation, and running water.
Their first submarines couldn’t go very deep. But as we discovered their methods, they built submarines that can go very deep and evade Coast Guard detection.
With the amount of money they have at stake, they’ll keep developing ways around our barriers. Is it worth spending millions/billions on a fence and water diversion that they will just circumvent?
Illegals sneaking across the border obviously don’t have those kind of resources, but they’ve started hiring coyotes who have access to the cartels’ tunnels and using them.
Does that mean we should just give up and not try? No. But I see a 2000-mile fence as a huge waste of time, money, and resources that will be circumvented not long after it’s built. Thus my position that it’s infeasible.
I do like your proposed solutions for the agricultural and environmental issues. I will have to give them some serious thought.
I agree...they will keep trying and escalating. No question.
We all know the solution to the drug problem involves the Marine corps. Eventually it will come to that. But can you HONESTLY deny that the fence would make a SIGNIFICANT impact in illegals coming here, gutting the DEM power base or greatly reducing the drug traffic?
Subs...true. They can put the ammount of coke on a sub that crosses the border in 2 days on foot...it takes a month turnaround time. In that month the fence has stopped a monsterous amount of drugs and how many subs do they have? 2? 3? Tops? And we already found 2.
Now divert the financial resources spent chasing ghosts across the expanse of no mans land to the CG and those subs have a problem.
I’m sorry. I just do not see why people are so adamantly opposed to a (I’m winging it here) 10 billion dollar project that returns a huge benefit to America when (not you personally) so few make a peep that Govt lately spend that in about 10 H-O-U-R-S!