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Because there is significantly less illegal immigration coming from those borders. Responsible resource allocation involves employing your assets where they wil
by CapricornNoble 7y ago
Because there is significantly less illegal immigration coming from those borders. Responsible resource allocation involves employing your assets where they will net the greatest utility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_maximization_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_maximization_problem
Let's say 1 Anduril Widget would stop 10 border crossings/year on the southern border, but only 1/yr on the Canadian border. If I have 100 widgets, allocating them all to the southern border is the objectively superior employment of my assets. Only if my marginal utility per widget drops to preventing <1 crossing per year in the SOUTH should I even CONSIDER shifting resources to the northern border.
- chillwaves 7y agoThat's right, because most illegal immigration comes in the form of visa overstays. They are coming in the sky!!
- filoleg 7y agoParent is not talking about illegal immigration as a whole, they are clearly talking about illegal immigration due to illegal border crossings.
- tomp 7y agoThose people are quite well accounted for, right (IIRC they take your photos and fingerprints when you cross the border, presumably also for visa application). Completely different from an illegal "new-immigrant" that crosses the border unnoticed.
- aey 7y agoWhy does DoD care about illegal immigration? Mexico is not about to invade. This is useless to their mission. If they are going to build it and hand it of to border patrol, then Congress should fund it with the border patrols budget. Which they won’t, because this is as useless as a physical wall. So funding it with the money taxpayers allocated for the DoD is the definition of corruption.