Even if you build it, they will come
Carlos Guerra, at the San Antonio Express-News cites a 15 page academic paper “Reforming the Management of Migration Flows from Latin America to the United States,” by Wayne C. Cornelius, and published by the Brookings Institute –comparing illicit border crossings before and after the Great Wall of bullshit went up. It comes to the not so startling conclusion that:
… the eventual success rate is virtually the same for migrants whose most recent crossing occurred before 1995, when the border was largely unfortified, and those crossing in the most recent period. In other words, the border enforcement build-up seems to have made no appreciable difference in terms of migrants’ ability to enter the United States clandestinely.
The late Ann Richards (Texas’ last smart governor) is usually credited with being the first to say the same thing in more succinct language:
“If you build a 50-foot fence, I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder”.
If immigration is a social problem, relying on physical controls is not going to resolve it. Sort of like the narcotics trade that way: something I’ve written on extensively, and will be posting more about later today or tomorrow.
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