H B Lowrie
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Nice attempt at ignoring the data I posted. Post some data that proves walls don't work. You can't, of course. Even data from the US shows that walls do work.Spare us the horseshit. A wall that's guarded stops them cold:No one has ever claimed that the wall would replace all other border security measures. That's a snowflake diversion.No they are not. They are villifying the approach of "The Wall, The Wall, the Wall". Border security is more than just a wall. It's a lot more than the wall. And the Border Security is pretty damned good right now. Yes, it could be better but I would like for more moneyt be spend on boots on the ground and electronics. For instance, the United States Air Force has a surplus of Global Hawks. They are slowly being replaced by Predators which are armed. The Global Hawks have precision optics, can easily fly 350 mph cruise at a range of over 14,000 miles and can be controlled from anywhere on the face of the earth. They are surplus so Homeland Security can just appropriate them. With very little expenditure they can have a 1st class drone fleet that they only have to monitor, and only really have to fly it on landing and takeoff. Once it's on the correct heading and altitude, it goes on autopilot and the boot operator or operators monitor the cameras. One operator can handle more than one drone. One Global Hawk can do the work of a whole flightline full of Cessna 172s and do it faster, cheaper day or night. The Coast Guard loves them. Customs is already using the Reaper Drone which is a prop driven version and they are patrolling the Gulf and Oceans with it. This type of systems work. there is no reason that the Border Patrol can't use either of these to do the job of the Eyes in the Sky. Funny, 4 reapers are stationed by the Homeland in Arizona now. But they need more Reapers and if they could get their hands on the Global Hawks life would be good.
The problem is, they need more funding. for these programs for equipment, personnel and training. Over something like a the middle of a Desert in the dead of the night, either the Global Hawk or the Reaper can see just fine and pick humans up from quite a distance. People stand out like sore thumbs in the middle of a cooling down desert. So do motor vehicles. If they can aquire them surplus then they are much cheaper than any wall or fence in the middle of nowhere that isn't monitored full time. Trust me on this one, The border patrol is going to have plenty of time to be sitting just across the border waiting on them to cross the border and the illegal (by that time) immigrant won't be in any condition to resist after 2 or 3 days in that desert. If it can find a dug in Taliban it can find a Immigrant in the middle of a desert.
We need a wall. That's the bottom line. Drones can't stop a person. A wall can.
No, walls don't stop them. It just slows them down. Or they find creative ways to defeat it which also slows them down. What stops them is boots on the ground when they pick them up.
Boots on the ground by themselves do not stop them. That's what the graph shows. No one has more boots on the ground than Israel. Their illegal border crossings didn't stop until they built the wall.
You keep spouting stuff that is just total horseshit.
How about some graphs and data from your own country?
Arrests For Illegal Border Crossings Hit 46-Year Low
December 5, 201711:10 AM ET
Arrests For Illegal Border Crossings Hit 46-Year Low
Illegal Border Crossing Arrests Down 25 Percent From 2016
The Department of Homeland Security released its border security report for fiscal year 2017, which showed that Border Patrol arrests are at a 46-year low.
"Overall, removals are down because the border's under better control than it has been in 45 years," said Tom Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
New data released by DHS show that Border Patrol arrests are at a 46-year low.
There is no possible excuse for not funding the wall. None.
That's your argument hon. Fuck Israel, just say no to apartheid police states.