wow, yagi, I didn't know you knew more about it than the border patrol sector chief.
Last night, I saw a map that showed areas along the border where they have a fence having MORE illegals crossing than areas that don't have a fence. That pretty much refutes what you claim the "border patrol sector chief" said. And it makes sense. You don't put fences out in very remote areas where there is no population. You do put fences where there is a population of people who may cross.
This isn't the map that showed the number of crossers at each location, but it shows where current fencing exists. As you can see, almost the entire Texas/Mexican border is unfenced. Not surprisingly, that was the least crossed area by illegals. Ever wonder why? Because you don't need fencing where people aren't located.
http://apps.revealnews.org/border-wall/
Think about it: if there are no citizens within 300 square miles of a region that is nearly impossible to cross by vehicles/foot, why bother putting a fence where there are no crossers? Remember the pictures I posted showing just how easy it is to cross? There is no fence for hundreds of miles because there is barely any Mexican population there.
You put a fence up in areas where there are potential crossers. That happens to be in populated areas. So your claim about the chief's statement makes no sense.
So either 1) statistics show the chief to be wrong 2) you are misconstruing what he actually said. I am guessing it's the latter, but I could be wrong about that. My guess is that his comment was actually along the lines of "after building a fence, we saw the number of crossers decline." That's entirely different than what you claim.
Sure, a fence will keep some out from crossing at THAT location. But as has been shown, plenty of others will simply scale the fence within ten seconds, cut through it, go under it, or simply travel to an area that doesn't have a fence if they are too old/young/physically incapable of going over it. And that is exactly what we saw even the people in the migrant caravan do.
By the way, here is a nice little article I read this morning. Note what this Texas resident said:
"Why is the idea of a coast-to-coast wall stupid? No one who has visited Big Bend needs this explained, and support for The Wall is lowest in border communities, where people actually understand what day-to-day life is like there.
Huge stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border aren’t practical corridors for smuggling or illegal immigration. A wall through the national park would be a hideous billion-dollar project to keep that one guy in Boquillas from bringing wire roadrunner sculptures across the river in the morning to sell to hikers, and would negatively affect predominantly poor communities on the border, whose existences are fragile and often dependent on neighbors across the river."
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump...stupidity-that-trump-and-the-gop-cant-escape/
The pictures I posted were of the Big Bend region, a huge region along the Mexican border. As the writer said, anyone who has visited that region knows just how stupid cheeto's plan is to build a fence from coast to coast. T
The "one guy in Boquillas" he mentions? Every day, there is a Mexican who crosses the river and places homemade wire sculptures and hand-carved walking sticks on the trail. He puts a coffee can there for people to put money into if they decide to buy a walking stick and/or sculpture. At night, he then crosses back over into the U.S. to collect his money and the pieces he didn't sell that day. It's an honor system that 1) nobody takes his products without paying 2) nobody decides to take the entire coffee canister with the money inside.
The point? This guy freely crosses the border multiple times each day without any type of border patrol, fencing, etc. present. Just like my pictures showed, for hundreds of miles, there is absolutely fencing, no border patrol, etc. Those hundreds of miles also account for the lowest number of crossers each year.
So tell me again why you think it's wise to spend billions to build a fence there where very few people live for hundreds of miles?
