Posted on 10/17/2019 9:24:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Do border walls work? Based on the evidence at the new border wall in San Diego, they do. A year ago, the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego was an easy spot for caravans to send migrants into the United States. Not so much anymore, according to a report from Fox News. A 14-mile long border wall in San Diego that replaced an old fence is already working wonders.
“It's incredibly different...I’m able to see the old landing mat right next to the bollard and I'm able to see the old mesh right next to the new bollard and the difference is startling,” Douglas Harrison, Chief Patrol Agent of U.S. Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector, told Fox News.
Harrison explained that it’s not a barrier that can be easily scaled: “It’s an intimidating barrier. I'm an old Army guy, I was in the 101st Airborne and I would not try to cross that.”
The project to install 14 miles of replacement barriers began in May 2018 and is now complete. The secondary project began in February this year and it includes two miles of wall that did not exist before, officials say.
It’s part of a project that has, across the whole border, seen 71 miles completed, with an additional 162 currently under construction and an additional 276 miles in the “pre-construction” phase. It’s part of an ambitious plan to get somewhere close to 450-500 miles completed by the end of 2020.
While calculating the effectiveness of the barrier in terms of deterrence and preventing crossings is difficult, the erecting of the new wall coincided with a sharp decline in apprehensions.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Not tired of winning...
What a big, beautiful wall.
that wall will not stop the rising tides of global warming... why didn’t we make it solid to do that... now we will all still drown... what was trump thinking...
it does look nice... are we looking at mexico there or is mexico actually building the wall?
I saw a video of a person easily scaling this type of wall. Of course, it didn’t look this tall in the video. ;^)
You mean to say the 'rats were lying? :-/
For example, Russians built an impenetrable fence separating Crimea from Ukraine. It's a simple, high steel-mesh fence topped with concertina wire and patrolled by armed border guards. This high tech fence has monitors and censors to detect anybody trying to approach it or dig under it.
Israel also has effective walls and fences.
Only thing left to do is to erect some wind turbines and electrify it. Not enough to kill, but enough to repel varmints and other invaders from touching or climbing.
Plus, they can tout the “green-ness” (not the meanness) by recycling the metal mat and other replaced materials.
I've been going down to Baja since the 80s, throughout every conceivable economic/crime cycle, up and down. Right now, Baja is as economically healthy as I've ever seen it. I don't know what Trump promised/threatened the MX government, but the border situation along this section is totally under control - at least for now.
In addition, and I'd guess a lot of people don't know this, there are a TON of MX nationals who commute into San Diego. So, while it always seems like there are coyotes and migrant armies trying to crash the border, there are also many other MX citizens who *want* to return to their homes each night. So, they go through the normal border ID process which allows them expedited travel like US citizens with global entry.
From an overall perspective, it just seems sort of weird to not have a sense of the normal MX drama as everyone appears to have settled down and are focused on making money. (Lots and lots of real estate development projects stretching down the coast.) Which is why I say the Trump economy is not only going gangbusters in the USA, but is also affecting our border nation south. My gut tells me the MX gov't came close to blowing it by allowing through access from central America. Trump forced them to concede, and like D & JP before them, the "losing" countries get on the gravy train with everyone making $.
I'm sure the US is paying for the migrant holding areas, so that's a lot of cash to pay for additional security/police jobs, etc. I saw lots and lots of new, shiny (US built) SUVs, Hummers, etc with nice new uniforms for the connected people who got the new police/security/military jobs deployed pretty much everywhere.
The illegal aliens and the demonRATs hate the wall because it works.
Even after Trump has served his third term, the wall will still be there, working and working and working.
Somewhere around 2022 the house and senate will have overloaded majorities, and will pass a one time only, Amendment to the Constitution, allowing Trump and only Trump a third term:)
I have been watching it go up too. The new bollard fence is about 20 meters north of the old existing fence. The old fence can easily be crossed with a ladder. Now the illegal invaders will be funneled to try to cross in other areas where the Border Patrol will have an easier time catching them. This is a work in progress, but it is definitely progress. When 0bama was president there was no razor wire anywhere on that stretch of border. Now there is razor wire and bollard fencing.
They did have such a video....except the wall was wood....and not hot steel.
“No, the non painted, soft rust looks blends in with the color of the natural hills, scrub, etc in California. Very popular and part of the NorCal superiority complex.)”
According to some experts, the savings on no repainting every few years is substantial.
Also if a disaster, of nature or mankind takes out a section of the wall, you don’t have to have hundreds of meetings to match the exist color. You just replace the damaged section with pieces that look the same.
Californians love to have non stop expensive meetings to match color, do away with plastic straws and now plastic eating utensils. Sometimes they have to travel to exotic places to discuss Gorebull warming and how to color match something.
Besides that, Greta and AOC say that we have less than 12 years before Gorebull warming kills all of us. So the natural rust should last until then.
Amen: Not tired of winning...!
Cue the whining losing trolls on FR, who hate President Trump as much as Pelosi and other dems in congress do.
They need to tell us how President Trump is $crewing America by not building good fences.
as a resident of SD County, thank you mr president, keep going east till you see the gulf.
As it turns out the biggest issue for those that have managed to climb it is the real trick is to safely get down the other side. Many crossing the tall bollard wall have been injured in falls, some have gotten hung up in the fence and a few have even died.
The thing is some people are better climbers than others obviously. Most will not attempt it and many of those that do attempt it will not make it. Those that do make it are slowed down so it is more likely they will be caught since Border Patrol has more time to respond.
It works far, far better than what it replaced everywhere it is built.
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