Well a barrier does help slow the traffic, and serves to funnel traffic to secure points of entry.
And when Donald closes those points of entry, the traffic will find ways to bypass the barrier.
There are three ways to do this; none of them are particularly complicated.
A wall (which in reality is not like a solid concrete wall across the entire boarder as the word might suggest) gives boarder patrol precious time to apprehend illegal crossings.
A fence is going to give, at most, ten minutes of precious time.
Given the thousands of miles of border, ten minutes (and again, that's
tops) isn't much.
One man or a small group of men, even with transportation, can only cover so much ground. Take this idea, multiply the agents and apply it to nearly two thousand miles of boarder and we still have the same problem.
Right -- you've hit upon the classic problem of offense vs. defense: The offense can be
anywhere, while the defense must be
everywhere.
Closing the boarder for an unspecified amount of time, in theory could help boarder patrol to catch up with the current humanitarian crisis, because in theory at least, it would greatly reduce the inflow of traffic, providing time to deal with the crisis on our side of the boarder.
It would also greatly reduce the inflow of goods, services, and revenue. How many millions -- billions -- of dollars are you willing to flush while the Border Patrol starts beating the bushes looking for people climbing the invisible wall?
For every single immigrant, whether illegal and sent back or illegal and eligible for the same benefits provided for needy legal citizens, there is a cost and a price paid by all legal citizens, even when the government provides the benefits, it's never free.
Ah, but how many more of those immigrants find work and contribute
to the system?
It really does not help that this has been a problem, a crisis really, for decades.
And in those decades, smarter solutions have been tried... and failed.
The estimated number of illegal immigrants currently in America is in the multi million range. Key word is estimated, and it does not account for the undocumented nor the legitimacy of the process when considering all legalized immigrants. Think about the consequences for America as a nation if this continues at the same pace and if we do not take necessary action to slow this problem down.
I take it there's a Doomsday scenario in here somewhere?
The way I see it, if we do not address the problem now, it will be too late for our children.
Too late how? Let's get that Doomsday scenario out in the open...
Unfortunately our lax policies and measures have compounded this problem and encouraged this crisis to the point we are currently at.
Are we therefore going to err in the opposite direction, and go draconian?
We must discourage illegal immigration, it is hurting us as a country, it has taken it's toll for decades, and will continue to do so unless it is discouraged.
We must do this, but we must also do this intelligently.
Building a wall and cowering behind it -- not particularly intelligent.
Sorry for not being more brief, but I wanted to articulate and explain the thought process, rather than just making statements. God bless you, God bless America.
God bless everyone else, while we're at it.
...or not?
