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Originally Posted by Dowly
No, that is not what I said at all. I specifically said the border is too long and undermanned.
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Well you are right, it is long and undermanned. No one, not even Trump is suggesting a wall/fence/barrier along the entire border. I'm going to suggest that authorities on the US side know exactly where most crossings take place. That would be a good place to start.
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Tunnels can be and are being dug anywhere along the border.
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Again I'm going to suggest that those tunnels are not being dug by immigrant mothers, fathers and their children from Guatemala. They are being dug by criminals for smuggling drugs and illegals into the USA. Which kinda reinforces what Trump has been saying all along. And you can bet that those illegals pay a hefty fee to use such tunnels.
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Perhaps it would be wise to first get the border manned and the technology there to make any sense to build a wall that on its own does very little.
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Again I'm going to suggest that there is a plan. And that plan is a combination of a physical barrier, enhanced detection and surveillance and the current border patrols.
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Getting people and goods across the border is a big business. Do you really think they'll just stop because there's a wall in the way? Just this year they found a tunnel dug at the depth of ~30 meters. That would go right under Trump's wall and probably can bypass monitoring equipment as well.
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Well I'll ask the obvious question. How many tunnels do you think would be needed to keep up the current level of illegal immigration and drug smuggling?