Walls aren't meant to be 100 percent effective nor the sole means of security. To say that walls don't work suggests wildly overblown expectations for the walls. Prisons have walls, and not because they don't work. They have them because they do, in fact, work. In the places along the southern border where the wall is in place, it's been successful in doing precisely as designed, greatly reducing the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs across the border.
Define “failed”.
Break-ins still occur.
Not necessarily.
Rioters still got thru.
Yet that is exactly what keeps being brought up. " Build a wall" they say, that will solve the problem they say.
That's an excellent example of overblown expectations for walls, and a gross misreading of what was written. He didn't say, "... as protection to keep people out..." he said, "... as protection to help keep people out..." If the walls helped keep people out, they didn't fail.
I don't know who "they" is, but do you really think a wall across the southern border won't have any effect on reducing the number of 200,000 people streaming unimpeded across the border?
Well I guess you do think that. Interesting.
Tell that to Israel.....
Yup but they have to dig those and not just walk right in to the country.
If a thief comes upon two houses in a neighborhood and the only noticeable difference is that one of the homes has a 12 foot fence surrounding it, which one will he most likely burglarize?
Unequal comparison. ....
Ok
Unequal, perhaps, but an apt analogous illustration of how walls do work.
Trump offered a solution, several of them, which were based on Border Patrol recommendations. But the democrats weren't having any of it, and thwarted the solutions at every opportunity, because they don't want secure borders.
It's true, some people only hear what they want to hear. While you only hear, "Build a wall," others hear, "Secure the borders to stop illegal immigration."
The Border Patrol, you know, the people who do the border for a living, disagrees with you.
That's a problem they worked out decades ago.
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I agree, thats pathetic, you dont want to spend more on building the wall I get it, but finish what you already have the materials for.We already know about Biden's cancellation of border wall construction, but many Americans may not know about the associated costs and wasted materials from this decision.
$100M in wall components already paid for by taxpayers - down the drain.
$5M per day going to contractors to do nothing since Biden ordered construction stopped.
$100 million in border wall materials rusting away in Texas: report
More than a $100 million worth of taxpayer-paid border wall materials have been discarded and are going to waste in Texas after President Biden ended construction.
The kicker is Biden has been paying the $5M per day to the contractors for the work they're NOT doing to build the wall that's already been paid for.
