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12th January 2019, 10:57 AM
Border Walls Work
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https://www.amren.com/features/2018/02/border-walls-work/
Westley Parker, American Renaissance, February 16, 2018
That is why many countries have them.
Border walls are surprisingly common. Two-thirds of the world’s people live in countries that protect their borders with a wall or fence. Governments build these barriers because they are an effective way to keep people out.
Many critics of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall think walls don’t work—or at least would not work at the Mexican border. Senator Nancy Pelosi opposes what she calls (https://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/82317/) “an immoral, ineffective, and expensive border wall.” Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano says (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/challenges-building-border-wall/): “You show me a 50-foot wall, and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder.” Another former DHS Secretary, Michael Chertoff, opposes (http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/07/01/transcript-secretary-homeland-security-michael-chertoff-on-fox-news-sunday.html) “a fence which someone can climb over with a ladder or tunnel under with a shovel.” Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas says (https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/opinions/trump-border-wall-ineffective-opinion-cuellar/index.html), “A physical wall would be ineffective.”
These people are wrong. Walls have a very impressive record.
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a 96-mile concrete barrier separating East and West Berlin. The 12-foot-high wall was built in 1961, reinforced the following year, and got a major overhaul in the late 1970s.
In its final form, the wall had 79 miles of fencing, 65 miles of anti-vehicle trenches, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dogs, and over 20 bunkers.
The Berlin Wall was only the most elaborate part of what the East Germans called the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,” which ran the entire length of the East German/West German border. Its official purpose was to deter “fascist” aggression against the communist bloc, but in practice it kept East Germans from defecting to the West.
Defection was a serious problem. Between 1945 and 1961, over 3.5 million East Germans walked across the unguarded border. As the graph below demonstrates, the wall and the “rampart” cut defections more than 90 percent.
https://i0.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/East-German-Immigration.png?resize=599%2C399&ssl=1
The wall was even more effective than this graph make it seem, because these figures include legal emigration. As the next graph shows, most of the movement to the West was legal. The wall and the “rampart” slashed defections to just 185 people per year.
https://i1.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Author.png?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1
Israel-Egypt Barrier
Israel takes border security very seriously. In January 2010, it decided to reinforce the fence on its border with Egypt to keep out terrorists and African immigrants.
The upgrade was finished in December 2013 at a cost of $470 million. The 16-foot-tall barrier ran 152-miles—the entire length of Israel’s southern border, from Rafah to Eilat—and included cameras, radar, and motion detectors.
While the fence slashed the number of “infiltrators,” the persistence of successful border incursions prompted Israel to raise the fence by 10 feet at certain undisclosed locations.
https://i2.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/6.jpg?resize=585%2C400&ssl=1Israel’s upgraded 26-foot Sinai barrier, 2017.
The 2013 upgrade reduced illegal incursions at the border by an average of 99.4 percent. The improvements completed in January 2017 cut illegal immigration to zero. As of June 2017, not a single person had breached the fence.
https://i1.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/A17.jpg?resize=599%2C399&ssl=1
Israeli West Bank Barrier
The 25-foot-tall barrier runs along the border between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank. For most of its length, it is a concrete wall, but in some places it is a fence. Construction began in 2002, in the midst of the Second Intifada, or armed Palestinian uprising. By 2012, 63 percent (277 miles) of the border was walled or fenced, but there has been little construction since then.
https://i2.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/13A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1A section of the Israeli separation wall between the Shufat refugee camp and Pisgat Zeev.
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https://www.amren.com/features/2018/02/border-walls-work/
Westley Parker, American Renaissance, February 16, 2018
That is why many countries have them.
Border walls are surprisingly common. Two-thirds of the world’s people live in countries that protect their borders with a wall or fence. Governments build these barriers because they are an effective way to keep people out.
Many critics of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall think walls don’t work—or at least would not work at the Mexican border. Senator Nancy Pelosi opposes what she calls (https://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/82317/) “an immoral, ineffective, and expensive border wall.” Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano says (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/challenges-building-border-wall/): “You show me a 50-foot wall, and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder.” Another former DHS Secretary, Michael Chertoff, opposes (http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/07/01/transcript-secretary-homeland-security-michael-chertoff-on-fox-news-sunday.html) “a fence which someone can climb over with a ladder or tunnel under with a shovel.” Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas says (https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/opinions/trump-border-wall-ineffective-opinion-cuellar/index.html), “A physical wall would be ineffective.”
These people are wrong. Walls have a very impressive record.
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a 96-mile concrete barrier separating East and West Berlin. The 12-foot-high wall was built in 1961, reinforced the following year, and got a major overhaul in the late 1970s.
In its final form, the wall had 79 miles of fencing, 65 miles of anti-vehicle trenches, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dogs, and over 20 bunkers.
The Berlin Wall was only the most elaborate part of what the East Germans called the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,” which ran the entire length of the East German/West German border. Its official purpose was to deter “fascist” aggression against the communist bloc, but in practice it kept East Germans from defecting to the West.
Defection was a serious problem. Between 1945 and 1961, over 3.5 million East Germans walked across the unguarded border. As the graph below demonstrates, the wall and the “rampart” cut defections more than 90 percent.
https://i0.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/East-German-Immigration.png?resize=599%2C399&ssl=1
The wall was even more effective than this graph make it seem, because these figures include legal emigration. As the next graph shows, most of the movement to the West was legal. The wall and the “rampart” slashed defections to just 185 people per year.
https://i1.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Author.png?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1
Israel-Egypt Barrier
Israel takes border security very seriously. In January 2010, it decided to reinforce the fence on its border with Egypt to keep out terrorists and African immigrants.
The upgrade was finished in December 2013 at a cost of $470 million. The 16-foot-tall barrier ran 152-miles—the entire length of Israel’s southern border, from Rafah to Eilat—and included cameras, radar, and motion detectors.
While the fence slashed the number of “infiltrators,” the persistence of successful border incursions prompted Israel to raise the fence by 10 feet at certain undisclosed locations.
https://i2.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/6.jpg?resize=585%2C400&ssl=1Israel’s upgraded 26-foot Sinai barrier, 2017.
The 2013 upgrade reduced illegal incursions at the border by an average of 99.4 percent. The improvements completed in January 2017 cut illegal immigration to zero. As of June 2017, not a single person had breached the fence.
https://i1.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/A17.jpg?resize=599%2C399&ssl=1
Israeli West Bank Barrier
The 25-foot-tall barrier runs along the border between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank. For most of its length, it is a concrete wall, but in some places it is a fence. Construction began in 2002, in the midst of the Second Intifada, or armed Palestinian uprising. By 2012, 63 percent (277 miles) of the border was walled or fenced, but there has been little construction since then.
https://i2.wp.com/www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/13A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1A section of the Israeli separation wall between the Shufat refugee camp and Pisgat Zeev.