And bingo. There we go. Let’s not get pedantic about a wall or a fence. Except of course when you want to win an argument. I’m glad you’ve agreed that the wall - as promised by Trump isn’t being built, and I’m glad you agree that what is being built is a fence - and does not appear to be substantially more impressive than the barrier already there.
Now, you seem to have exceptional difficultly actually wrapping your head around facts, because you’ve ignored it the last 3-4 times I’ve said this in my previous posts, and your now ignoring it again to make claims that are not factually true. Let’s spell it out, again, and hope that this time you actually pay some sort of acknowledgement to reality rather than simply pretending as if what you want to be true is actually true.
The “crisis”, is children and families arriving to claim asylum. They don’t appear to be tunneling under (pretty common and not
solved by a barrier), climbing over (not particularly difficult unless the barrier is much taller), or breaking through (which is likely doable in 5 minutes with a blow torch or angle grinder). In fact - they don’t appear to even be crossing the barrier....
what is happening, is that they are just wading over the rio grande - onto American soil - then finding CBP and legally claiming asylum - the CBP then let them through the gates in the fencing.
What will happen if Trump builds a wall, or a big beautiful fence; is that these individuals will walk through a completely different type of gate. Of course, you’ve ignored that point the last 4 or so times I’ve mentioned it, so I doubt you’ll address it this point.
Now, like the other times you’ve ignored the point to focus on your strawman - the focus on the barrier shows a profound lack of understanding of what’s actually happening at the border, who is crossing, why they are crossing, what are motivating factors - and instead are treating the barrier like a zombie barrier, ignoring consequences, issues, limitations, and nuance of the problems.
For example, on the one hand your “building the wall”, on the other hand your undermining the very reasons illegal immigration has been dropping from Mexico, with undermining the Mexican economy through nafta negotiations and tariffs. Your also ignoring the geopolitics of Central America, ignoring the ongoing destabilization both from the politics and the drugs that are being paid for by the US. This is not even going into the issues with corruption caused by western corporations, farming demands and markets of the Us that dictates the economics of farming - all of which serve to wholly destabilize the region.
The irrational focus on the symptoms, rather than the actual problems, is why a fence isn’t going to fix the problem in any meaningful sense, because of the confluence of other issues. Worse, the primary way to alleviate the problem is to work with and integrate policy with heavy Mexican involvement - a country who Trump has largely alienated with his rhetoric and trade policy.
And this is the issue: this profound lack of joined up thinking, and absurdly naive policy choices is either an unserious, or negligent attempt to fix the problem. Indeed, given the response, the whole policy is less about actual resolutions to actual problems and more about exploiting individual fears from racists, the economically isolated, and the generally gullible in order to win votes,
