His whole idea was vbased on the fact that people would not be stupid enough to try and cross a mine field.
I suggested that desperate people will take desperate measures, and that while most of us would agree that crossing ninety miles of ocean, on anything from inner tubes to boards held together by ropes, to twelve-foot row boats loaded with fourteen people or more, with very little water and no navigational tools, is foolish, I knew of close to 100,000 testaments to what extreme measures desperate people are willing to risk, laying at the bottom of the ninety mile stretch of water separating Cuba and Key West.
Texas? I truly don't insult people and don't intend this to be, but you don't sound like most of the Texans I know on this subject.