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Originally Posted by Dowly
No. The quote remains the same. Do not put words in my mouth.
Why not try the wall? Because it is fudging expensive and there are no guarantees that it works!
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The money argument is a thing the Americans have to settle with all by themselves. The efficiency of the wall as a tool to cut illegal migration must be tested. As I said, walls in other parts of the world and throughout history has proven to be very effective for their tasks. Today in the west people already go hysterical if you juts say the word "wall". It should all be a rosy-red pony farm instead where all are smiling and be happy and nobody does nobody else any harm.
You want guarantees? And do nothing if no guarantee is given? Best lay still and be dead then. Life has no guarantees for nothing.
Be empirical, test and experience. Test it, see the results, and then one
knows. Many border patrolling officers seem to say it works. Some say it works not and is a waste of money. Let the US go in full with this and then learn for sure what it is about.
What else should be done? Legalising migration and making illegal migration dissappear this way? Or the Australian model? Sure I like the Australian model, it is super-efficient and apparently the most successful attenmpt to tackle migraitpon and cut it to a low one digit percentage value of its former volume, but it raises even more antipathy in the public than the wall model. And the social-cultural unity by which the Han and the Japanese refuse any call to mix their ethincity and culture with foreigners is an option that is unrelastic in the West since such an ammount of collective unity does not exist over here.
The simple truth is this: migration can be digested by Western countries only to a certain level and not beyond, else migration takes over the hosting country. And cutting migraiton back cannot be done in a nice and "humane" way, but only by saying "No!" and acting dirty and unkind. Nobody wants to be seen like that, but thats how it is. They keep coming - either you kick them out and slam and then guard the door, or you give up and let them come in. These two options. Anything else is just egg-dancing and babbling.