July 1, 200719 yr Yeah, just ask the French. A wall would be an important part of securing the Mexican border, but if it's as far as it goes it'll prove pretty ineffective.
July 1, 200719 yr Yeah, just ask the French. A wall would be an important part of securing the Mexican border, but if it's as far as it goes it'll prove pretty ineffective. Word is that the East Germans did pretty well with it. Course, I'm not an East German so who knows.
July 1, 200719 yr Word is that the East Germans did pretty well with it. Course, I'm not an East German so who knows.The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long.
July 1, 200719 yr Author Yeah, just ask the French. A wall would be an important part of securing the Mexican border, but if it's as far as it goes it'll prove pretty ineffective. GREAT example 02Ram54. The Maginot line failed because the French failed to secure the entire boulder. The Germans simply went around it. What do you think this means for the Mexicans now that they're facing a wall less than 300 miles long instead of one over 700 miles long?
July 1, 200719 yr Truckers are defeating the Great Wall of China on a daily basis. I'm sure that will make an entertaining link. Truckers with 'Turbo Boost' like Kit from Knight Rider?
July 1, 200719 yr I'm sure that will make an entertaining link. Truckers with 'Turbo Boost' like Kit from Knight Rider? http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0128760320070601
July 1, 200719 yr GREAT example 02Ram54. The Maginot line failed because the French failed to secure the entire boulder. The Germans simply went around it. What do you think this means for the Mexicans now that they're facing a wall less than 300 miles long instead of one over 700 miles long?What about a wall the length of the entire border, which is 1,900 miles long. Quick return to the Berlin Wall. 96 miles long, around for about 30 years, and about 5,000 successful illegal crossings. That's a crossing rate of about 2 for every 3 miles of wall per year. Take that same rate to a 1,900 mile long wall and it's almost 3,000 a year. I would argue that this rate would be WAY too low, because on a wall 1,900 miles long the detection resources would be far more thinly placed than it was in Berlin.
July 1, 200719 yr On the bright side, the last superpower to build a wall was trying to keep people from leaving. So, I guess we've got that going for us.
July 1, 200719 yr What about a wall the length of the entire border, which is 1,900 miles long. Quick return to the Berlin Wall. 96 miles long, around for about 30 years, and about 5,000 successful illegal crossings. That's a crossing rate of about 2 for every 3 miles of wall per year. Take that same rate to a 1,900 mile long wall and it's almost 3,000 a year. I would argue that this rate would be WAY too low, because on a wall 1,900 miles long the detection resources would be far more thinly placed than it was in Berlin. The Berlin Wall was very effective and I agree that we could not possibly patrol our southern border as effectively as the East Germans did the Berlin Wall. (Partially because we wouldn't resort to a policy of shoot-to-kill.)However, even if we could be one tenth as effective as the Berlin Wall we would reduce illegal border crossings to around 30,000 per year (using your numbers and multiplying by 10). A reduction to 30,000 per year would reduce illegal border crossings by more than 96-98%.
July 2, 200719 yr I hear that "Invisible Fencing" is pretty effective at keeping dogs in the yard. Now, if we could just figure out how to convince every Mexican citizen to wear a pretty new necklace from their good friends in America... :sssh: That, and how to convince them to change the batteries in their pretty new necklace every couple of months... :lol:
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