No wonder Trump wants to build a wall

Did it really work? I must have a different meaning for "worked".
Maybe you have a source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier#Effectiveness

Suicide bombings have decreased since the construction of the barrier.[7][45] Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have been less able to conduct attacks in Israel, which have decreased in areas where the barrier has been completed.[46][47]

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel Security Agency report that in 2002, there were 452 fatalities from terrorist attacks. Before the completion of the first continuous segment (July 2003) from the beginning of the Second Intifada, 73 Palestinian suicide bombings were carried out from the West Bank, killing 293 Israelis and injuring over 1,900. After the completion of the first continuous segment through the end of 2006, there were only 12 attacks based in the West Bank, killing 64 people and wounding 445.[6] Terrorist attacks declined in 2007[6] and 2008[48] to 9 in 2010.[49]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs predicts that completion of the barrier will continue to prevent terrorist attacks[50] since "[a]n absolute halt in terrorist activities has been noticed in the West Bank areas where the fence has been constructed."[46]

Israeli officials (including the head of the Shin Bet) quoted in the newspaper Maariv have said that in the areas where the barrier was complete, the number of hostile infiltrations has decreased to almost zero. Maariv also stated that Palestinian militants, including a senior member of Islamic Jihad, had confirmed that the barrier made it much harder to conduct attacks inside Israel. Since the completion of the fence in the area of Tulkarm and Qalqilyah in June 2003, there have been no successful attacks from those areas. All attacks were intercepted or the suicide bombers detonated prematurely.[51] In a March 23, 2008 interview, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah complained to the Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq that the separation barrier "limits the ability of the resistance to arrive deep within [Israeli territory] to carry out suicide bombing attacks, but the resistance has not surrendered or become helpless, and is looking for other ways to cope with the requirements of every stage" of the intifada.[52]
 
I'm not convinced this is a fair comparison at all.
Are you trying to say this would stop Mexico from using suicide bomb attacks on Texas and California? I' not sure that is much of a problem.
Illegal immigrants are very often here legally and then over stay their visa, they also come in from areas where there wouldn't be a wall even if we did build a wall the length of the border.

Also do you have any evidence supporting your claim about China's wall being successful?
 
You're right.

I saw a guy bench press 400 pounds. Should be just as easy to do 2000.
Why is wall coverage a non-linear function? What makes it so much harder to cover 5x the space if you have enough patrol? You realize some things scale differently than others?

I'm not convinced this is a fair comparison at all.
Are you trying to say this would stop Mexico from using suicide bomb attacks on Texas and California? I' not sure that is much of a problem.
Illegal immigrants are very often here legally and then over stay their visa, they also come in from areas where there wouldn't be a wall even if we did build a wall the length of the border.

Also do you have any evidence supporting your claim about China's wall being successful?
At the end of the day, a wall is good for keeping people out. When smuggling illegal contraband to and from Mexico is as easy as walking across then a wall will definitely help, and pay for itself, amortized across however long it operates.

And the Great Wall helped China protect themselves against invading Mongolians. The Mongolians had to take a much longer routes than going directly into the main city in minutes, giving the Chinese soldiers more time to prepare for an invasion. It served vital to the defense of Beijing for centuries.
 
Why is wall coverage a non-linear function? What makes it so much harder to cover 5x the space if you have enough patrol? You realize some things scale differently than others?


At the end of the day, a wall is good for keeping people out. When smuggling illegal contraband to and from Mexico is as easy as walking across then a wall will definitely help, and pay for itself, amortized across however long it operates.

And the Great Wall helped China protect themselves against invading Mongolians. The Mongolians had to take a much longer routes than going directly into the main city in minutes, giving the Chinese soldiers more time to prepare for an invasion. It served vital to the defense of Beijing for centuries.
We are not defending against invading Mongolian army's or suicide bombers do you understand that?
Also bringing illegal contraband into the us from Mexico is not as easy as walking across the border. Not even close. You are either willfully ignorant or stupid to believe that.
 


And then you have morons like this guy on tucker Carlson,they always have these stupid smirks like they know they are trolling or full of shit.


Tucker only hosts obnoxious long neck trolls to make himself seem smart
 
The 2013 massacre in the same town was levels more horrifying, if I remember correctly.

If you held an international competition for the most vicious, sadistic and violent organised crime group, the Cartels would take Gold. Maybe the Russian Thieves in Law with That Look in their eyes could give the Cartels a good fight, but the American and Sicilian Mafia, Yakuza etc etc would be competing for Bronze at best.
 
If you held an international competition for the most vicious, sadistic and violent organised crime group, the Cartels would take Gold. Maybe the Russian Thieves in Law with That Look in their eyes could give the Cartels a good fight, but the American and Sicilian Mafia, Yakuza etc etc would be competing for Bronze at best.
It’s no wonder those poor people want into the States. It’s also no wonder anyone who cares about the States would want to monitor, closely, who comes in from there. These people, victims and perps, are in a state of being that does not relate to in any way to people who identify as unicorns and want a few thousand bathrooms built for them by their government.
 
I was so admiring of those Mexican vigilantes that were standing up to those pieces of shit a few years ago. Last I checked, the corrupt government was beginning to go after them and their guns. I stopped reading then... don’t want to know what happened.
 
Don’t forget Arnold was giving illegals California drivers licenses... what a travesty

Not only that but representation is skewed in border states. They get population numbers from the census which counts all people, including illegals. They effect our elections whether they vote or not
 
Worked for Israel. Worked for China.

The wall is cheap if you amortize for however long it is going to stand.

Since the 1980's drug use in Israel has evolved from a marginal concern to a central problem afflicting the entire society. Israel is a dynamic, modern western society, and as such, often tends to copy behavior patterns common to other western countries. Unfortunately, this includes unwanted behaviours like drug use, a phenomenon that does not exclude any social status, and which has devastating social, economic and cultural consequences, threatening the stability of the entire society.

http://www.antidrugs.org.il/english/pages/1315.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_mafia
 
Yes? Why can't I make that comparison?

For once the US border isnt as populated so patrolling is more expensive.

Secondly the US-Mexican trade amounts to over 500 billion dollars a year, there is plenty of commercial traffic going where drugs can go hidden.
 
It’s no wonder those poor people want into the States. It’s also no wonder anyone who cares about the States would want to monitor, closely, who comes in from there. These people, victims and perps, are in a state of being that does not relate to in any way to people who identify as unicorns and want a few thousand bathrooms built for them by their government.

Why would a drug dealer want to move to the US when they are doing fine in Mexico?
 
Since the 1980's drug use in Israel has evolved from a marginal concern to a central problem afflicting the entire society. Israel is a dynamic, modern western society, and as such, often tends to copy behavior patterns common to other western countries. Unfortunately, this includes unwanted behaviours like drug use, a phenomenon that does not exclude any social status, and which has devastating social, economic and cultural consequences, threatening the stability of the entire society.

http://www.antidrugs.org.il/english/pages/1315.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_mafia
The wall was built and finished in 2003, why bring up drug problems that started in 1980?

Also as far as illegal immigration specifically:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...-fence-israel-cut-illegal-immigration-99-per/

99% decrease in illegal immigration since the Israel wall was erected.
 
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