Had the fence been built, there would be several million less people here today. That’s a simple fact. Anything else is just an excuse. Had the fence been built, the dems and GOP could not easily play border games because crossings could be watched and if needed, blockaded. Lots of us warned that today would come BECAUSE the fence remained unreconstructed. We were right. The lack of a fence...a REAL fence, allowed these political games. And as long as we are fenceless, the games will continue until the Dems/GOP get their destroyed country.
You don’t have to shoot someone, though I’m not opposed to it, for a fence to work. If that were so, lots of people wouldn’t waste money on them. Take the fences down across America if they don’t work. Take the fence down around airports and the White House if they don’t work. When was the last time someone was shot climbing one? How many trillions of dollars of property remained safe because most people didn’t try climbing them with TVs on their backs? I do not understand how people say this or imply this with a straight face.
Anyone who’s ever looked over terrain with an infrared radar device knows that no person can hide. Deer stand out....even bunny rabbits stand out. So, a human stands out. In fact, they stand out so well that one can distinguish what they hold in their hands by the different heat signature.
So, a double fence and high tech sensing and infrared monitoring can detect any normal effort to cross the no man’s land between the two fences.
There is no real refutation of this and there’s no real excuse about the terrain. We’ve built railroads, interstate highways, and amazing bridges across the most harrowing pieces of real estate in the entire country. The only reason we’re not building a double fence coast-to-coast is obstruction from politicians sold out to radical change ideology or to the chamber of commerce.