Did you see the other thread about the largest group of immigrants ever to tunnel under?
Walls don't work.
Funny, they work on so many other borders. How do you explain that?
World of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four times as many as when the Berlin Wall was toppled – as governments try to hold back the tide of migrants
- Security fears and a widespread refusal to help refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building around the world
- A third of the world's countries have completed or are building barriers – compared to 16 at the fall of the Berlin Wall
- They include Israel's 'apartheid wall', India's 2,500-mile fence around Bangladesh and Morocco's huge sand 'berm'
- Experts are dismissive, saying: 'Their main function is theatre. They provide the sense of security, not real security'
By
SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:56 EST, 21 August 2015 | UPDATED: 03:55 EST, 22 August 2015
How 65 countries have erected security walls on their borders | Daily Mail Online
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CREPITUS, could there be a more "far right, Conservative" site?
Walls of Separation
An Analysis of Three 'Successful' Border Walls
BY ESTEBAN FLORES
July 27, 2017
In November of 1989, the Socialist Unity Party, the Communist leaders of the East German state, announced that citizens of East Berlin were free to cross the border into the West, and the wall that had divided Berlin came crumbling to the ground. To many observers, this action symbolized the dawn of a new period of globalization, migration, and interconnection of nations—the world could now be united in an era of peace.
In reality, more walls have gone up since the event than ever before. [my highlight]
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the number of border walls between nations has more than quadrupled. According to Elisabeth Valet, a researcher at the University of Quebec, there are more than 65 walls currently standing or under construction. Unlike the Berlin Wall, which was meant to keep people in, most of these walls were built to keep people out by deterring illegal immigration, stopping the flow of contraband, or protecting citizens from crimes. While many were shocked by US President Donald Trump’s plans to build a border wall, a wall is by no means uncommon among both developing and developed nations. Countries such as Hungary, Britain, Bulgaria, Norway, Turkey, and Myanmar have all built walls on their borders, raising the question: would a wall along the US-Mexico border be successful?
Walls of Separation: An Analysis of Three 'Successful' Border Walls | Harvard International Review