(01-29-2019, 10:30 PM)Rajvik Wrote: [...]the difference being that I support the idea of stopping people from being able to JUST WALK ACROSS OUR BORDER WHEREVER THEY PLEASE.
Just for the record, what was your beef about this again?
There have been no terrorist that has ever 'walked across the border'.
They neither need nor want to go to that trouble.
They want their people to be people we don't suspect.
An Afghani refugee going to school far less suspicious than an Afghani that 'walked across the border'.
Refugees get automatic access to education assistance. For illegal border crossers - despite your claims - that's a hit or miss thing.
And in the few cases where there's a violent crime perpetrated by an illegal border crosser? Well, the hell of it is that it's never the ones who are first-time crossers. They are usually deported at least two or three times before the do something horrible to someone, and each time they were deported it was because they were caught red-handed committing a crime.
In which case I have to stop and ask: WHAT THE FUCK?
Once I can understand. Get out and stay out. The second time should have been where the judge fucking throws the book at them and sends them off to prison.
Every time I see something in the news about an illegal immigrant that commited a violent crime, no wall we could ever afford to build would have kept them out. Barbed wire? Throw something over it. Tall? Get a rope. Bars? Hand me that hacksaw. No purchase for climbing? Dig under it or find a drain.
To build the kind of wall to keep determined people like that out, you'd need to build China's Great Wall 5.0, ten armed guard for every quarter mile, drones buzzing all over the place, and fucking seismometers to tell you when someone is is trying to dig under.
There would have to be drainage culverts every half-mile or so, and they'll have to be monitored constantly. There will have to be pumping stations to pump out the water from low-lying areas.
In TEXAS you'll have to build it on OUR SIDE of the Rio Grande. Good luck getting that approved.
There will have to be fucking GARRISONS for the Border Patrol agents you'd have on this thing. And that's to say NOTHING of all the other sundry shit. Motor pools, maintenance shops, command and control centers...
And no matter what you say, this is the wall you really want. The absolute barrier that will keep all the murders, rapists, and terrorists out of our country. Nothing less is going to accomplish that feat.
Or, you know, we can just do the shit we're supposed to do, like actually enforce laws instead of pretending that every tom, dick, and harry isn't our problem by sending them all back. Because that will be far less expensive in the end.