(01-27-2019, 09:52 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(01-27-2019, 09:29 AM)B2hibry Wrote: Except both of your examples did not include a Border Agent stating walls don’t work. In fact, you just offered proof that they do. 

Example #1: Illegal activity funneled/forced through Port of Entry at a sector that has a wall. 

Example #2: The wall slowed down trafficking long enough to have patrols get into position to survey, record, and then apprehend. Proof activity was against asylum claims and returning them back to where they came from.

I watched Trump from the border actually talking to border agents about if a wall will work. Every one of them said yes.

I always compare the "ladder on the border wall" left argument to a person dying in an auto accident while wearing a seatbelt then people saying seat belts don't work..

Qz.com.......lol, wow.

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(01-27-2019, 01:47 AM)TJBender Wrote: https://qz.com/1520651/border-patrol-age...wont-work/
https://thehill.com/latino/426857-border...ith-ladder

TJH, respond with a yes or no to this question. Nothing else.

If walls don't work, should we remove all existing barrier fence at the southern border?

No. Walls do work in urban areas where someone is literally a 20-foot walk across the street from being a shadow. Ever been to Otay Mesa, CA? It's right on the border at the southern end of San Diego, and it's a massive warehouse and industrial center. If someone gets across there, they're gone. That's why the wall is so heavily fortified there, and in that situation it's absolutely doing what it needs to do to be a good investment. That's why every metropolitan area along the border has some form of physical barrier, and I'm in favor of using federal dollars to upgrade what's already in place.

What doesn't make sense is putting a wall up in the desert, where someone is a 10-mile hike from the nearest main road, when FLIR cameras, drones with thermal imaging and a heavier Border Patrol presence with better equipment for the terrain (including horses, I am dead serious about horses--cowboys used them for a reason) would be every bit as effective. Probably more so if the funds going to that wall would otherwise go towards those things.

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