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All you're doing is claiming the wall won't work as well as your solution. There's zero reason to believe what you're saying would be effective. Walls have work

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > All you're doing is claiming the wall won't work as well as your solution No, I'm claiming it won't work as well, costs more in direct public expenditures (free is hard to beat), and has greater adverse side effects than my method. > There's zero reason to believe what you're saying would be effective. There's zero reason to believe that removing the allocation rule that creates decade+ waits for legal immigration from a neighboring country with lots of people wanting to and legally qualified to immigrate would reduce illegal immigration? No, there's a lot more than zero reason to think that. > Walls have worked for thousands of years... The walls that have ever worked for even vaguely similar use cases weren't simple physical barriers but manned fortresses, usually where the “wall” was topped with an elevated fighting platform and roadway, often with two actual walls with the roadway/platform in between them, and the wall also featured periodic tower forts as components. And even most of them didn't work all that well and were epic resource drains to build, maintain, and man.