NBC: All Border-Wall Prototypes Vulnerable To Penetration — Including Steel Slats

Hotair ^ | 01/10/2019 | Ed Morrissey

[tet68]

Seems like reactive armor would slow any attempts
to cut or breach it...not to mention a sloped berm
and well defined cross fires.

Oh yeah, one way exits, cause you can leave any time
you want.

[Ancesthntr]

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

General George S. Patton, Jr.

Israel has a fence to keep out terrorists trained and financed by some of the best intelligence agencies on the planet. It isn’t perfect, either, but it has reduced terrorism in Israel that originates from outside of the fence by about 99%. Literally thousands of lives and at least hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage (if not billions) have been saved.

So tell me again why we shouldn’t put up a wall?

Besides, since when is perfection the standard for any government program? If that’s the new standard for the Dems, then we’ll FINALLY have a government as big as the Founders had imagined.

[IronJack]

A wall may not stop ALL illegal infiltration, but it will certainly stop SOME.

I was always taught not to let perfection be the enemy of action.

[Ikeon]

Fill it with napalm. Then go ahead, a saw will take too long, use a torch or cutting wheel on it.

[econjack]

Perfect! A source of income as well as a deterent.

[Ancesthntr]

“Make the slats out of titanium.”

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No, too expensive. Just coat them in Tungsten (melting point 6,192 degrees F.). Let’s see them torch THAT!

[Moonman62]

I bet all the doors, walls and locks that protect NBC executives can also be defeated.

[I want the USA back]

NBC forgot about the surveillance video cameras that will be set up to detect anyone trying to saw through.

[FrankR]

[iontheball]

No one claims that a barrier cannot be breached. What a legitimate barrier does is reduce, contain, and control attempts to breach the border. It allows the CBP agents to better manage the assault. In addition, if the barrier prevents most of the invaders from gaining a foothold on U.S. soil, it avoids the cost of caring for and processing out the invaders.

[Blue Jays]

"...the wall won’t work..."

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Democrats and the media like to insist that illegal immigrants will just tunnel beneath the wall.
Good. Then fill those new tunnels with steel rebar and concrete. They’re just providing the labor.
We can fill tunnels with concrete faster than they can build them.

[ArcadeQuarters]

How vulnerable is no wall at all?

[mrmeyer]

Landmines.

[Steven W.]

thank you for perspective! ;)

[chuckles]

I was a telephone repairman for 30 years and I can tell you 90% of people, even manly men, would have maximum pucker factor trying to scale a 30 ft wall. Ladders, ropes, even a bucket truck at 35 ft with nothing on the other side would make many men throw up. It would definitely rule out women and children with a 300lb butt. A 30 ft wall like the ones used as samples, would stop 99.8% of the illegals crossing the border.

We had a 35ft ladder at work to climb walls and such, but it took two men to carry it and if it caught the wind while you were raising it, fingers and arms were in jeopardy as it slid down out of control. I doubt many Navy Seals could scale a slick 30ft wall in any reasonable amount of time, let alone a woman with 3 kids.

The only options that will be left soon is deadly force by drones firing Hellfire missiles or electrifying a metal fence. I figured by now the militia's would be placing snipers with .50 cals on a mountain by now. Militia's have been down there before.

[M. Thatcher]

This is why I’ve complained

My eyes cannot roll far enough out of my head at all the FR spitballers from the sidelines.

[ScottfromNJ]

“That’s where human eyes, sensors and electronic surveillance comes into play.”

Yep, and Israel seems to be doing pretty well with a properly maintained border wall, a fact that seems to have escaped NBC’s attention.

[Rebelbase]

Which results in less illegal entry, This:

Or this:

Or this:

[KierkegaardMAN]

I want to market a wall scaling equipment kit written in Spanish with a tracking device hidden in each one available in most Mexican towns. And then supply the info to Border Patrol so they can meet them at the wall. Of course I’m sure there are opportunities for portable hot air balloons and helicopters too.

[FrankR]

As “Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke)” once said, “There never was a horse that couldn’t be rode, and never was a man that couldn’t be throw’d”...and while there is some questionable grammar in that quote, the truth remains.

The libs are suggesting that we are “going to fail”, so, why bother doing it?

I don’t think that the fence section shown was cut with a $1.98 hacksaw from Home Depot...it was a power saw, and it took a little time.

Of course any fence can be breached, climbed over, dug under, or even flown over in a homemade glider. But, I didn’t see any of the “caravan” invaders carrying power hacksaws, or hand gliders with them on the trail.

The libs, as usual, miss the point entirely; their efforts of dissuasion fall on deaf ears, because...because, they’re stupid.

Even if armed guardposts were every 500 yards, people would still find their way up, over,under,or around the wall. Nothing short of shooting them would be permanent, and that would be short-lived as well.

Build the wall...at least those who are entrepreneurial enough to find a way through will be in a smaller, more manageable number.