batman wrote on 12/29/18 at 08:01:30:


Did the Berlin Wall stop people from escaping? Does a bear $hit in the woods? Yes to both! If the Berlin Wall didn't work, you wouldn't even know the phrase Berlin Wall. (What's the phrase for obtuse squared?)

And the whole "give us your poor"...blah, blah, blah.... You know immigrants who came over were screened before they got on the departing ships, screen again when they got here and sent back if they didn't meet a predefined criteria.

But you'll ignore those inconvenient facts and stay secure in your house. You know, the property you keep secure and give permission before anyone can enter or live there.

Bat, you lock your house doors, you lock your car doors and maybe even have a fence around your yard knowing full well a determined thief could gain entry given the time and without being spotted. A wall across the Southern border accomplishes the same thing. It prevents widespread, uncontested crossings like we are seeing now.

And by the way, someone explain how an illegal alien can get arrested on DUI twice, have gang sign tattoos and not be deported? He stuck around long enough to kill a cop. WTF?....

A poem, attached to a statue, is a contract to flood our country with people who are not vetted, demonstrated as necessary and beneficial TO our society?
A POEM is our immigration policy?
You wanna talk about SILLY?
Ohhh, golly, it's a shame we are unable to
MONITOR the wall with technology and stop tunnels.
Of course just a tunnel, in the middle of nowhere, would be obvious.
I wonder if that's why the tunnels that have been found start
INSIDE of a building and go
To
ANOTHER BUILDING?

You don't expect 100% out of anything.
Pretending that since it's unreasonable to expect perfect performance, it's not worth doing.
Seatbelts save lives.
People get killed wearing them,too.
We NEED a wall.

WebsterMark wrote on 12/30/18 at 05:47:23:

"... And by the way, someone explain how an illegal alien can get arrested on DUI twice, have gang sign tattoos and not be deported? He stuck around long enough to kill a cop. WTF?....

Simple, It’s Calf.
Where a SNEEK in Illegal, is protected.
Where a SNEEK in Illegal, is given help.
Where a SNEEK in Illegal, is taken better care of than,
victims of a fire, who have paid Taxes all their life,
who now have absolutely NOTHING.

thumperclone wrote on 12/30/18 at 08:19:22:

fact: the berlin wall didn't stop escapes some 5,000 were  successful  it did stop a mass exodus

Just a couple of things to chew on:
About 11 MILLION illegal immigrant population in the United States. (PEW)
About 85,000 per year, of ‘refugees’ are brought in.
The Berlin Wall was up for 28 years. and the 5,000 (+/-) crossings were mostly in the first couple of years.
Still that only equates to about 180 a YEAR.

The Berlin wall was about 60 miles long,...
Hadrian's wall was about 70 miles...
...both were heavily guarded...(it was the guarding that prevented most crossings not the physical barrier).
Guards on Hadrian's wall were there for so long they no longer considered themselves Roman,... they were English... many English alive today have some Roman blood.
They assimilated into the culture.

3,000 miles... whole different can o' worms...

Serowbot wrote on 12/30/18 at 10:15:38:

 ...3,000 miles... whole different can o' worms...

What is 3,000 long ?
If you are implying it is the South Boarder between the USA/Mexico.
That boarder is 1,954 long.

MnSpring wrote on 12/30/18 at 13:46:18:

Oh?,.. well that's different then...  

MnSpring wrote on 12/30/18 at 15:25:06:

Yeah,.. it so much more relates to a 70 mile wall...

Hadrian guarded his 70 mile wall with about 10,000 men...
Counting for shifts and time off,... I guess we could do a 2,000 mile wall with about 500,000 men...

Heck,.. with modern technology maybe 100,000 men.
...but that's using the technology that says we don't need a wall anyway.

... or, maybe we just need better immigration policies, and sensible borders.
We could pretend we're not in the dark ages...