APNewsBreak: Border wall models thwart US commandos in tests

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  1. BillRM

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    Thanks as I loss count of the number of women that had already came forward
     
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    Do the Coasties plan on linking hands? Rubber and plastic boats don't show up on radar. That's why our special forces use them.
     
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    We're not being invaded by Mexico either. Almost half of illegals come in legally with a visa. Less than half are Mexican. While Mexicans constitute the majority of illegals, most of them have been here since before the Great Recession.
     
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    Nor by anyone else as an invasion is what general Scott on the order of President Polk did to the Mexicans not repeat not workers peacefully looking for work in their former country.


    LOL Crosby would love you to be on his jury.
     
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    Just to mention a historical fact related to this discussion. No one was deported from the U.S. after the Treaty of Hdalgo was signed. The Mexicans who became Americans after this treaty were extremely fortunate as are their descendants.
     
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    Invasion:
    • an incursion by a large number of people or things into a place or sphere of activity.
    • an unwelcome intrusion into another's domain
     
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    Any sympathy I might have felt for the "Dreamers" went away very quickly after hearing their so called demands, and seeing the crotch grabbing, flag burning, traffic disrupting pro-DACA demonstrations.
     
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    LOL giving US citizenship rights to those descendants of those who did not leave after the invasion did not come into full effect before the SC ruling in a case in 1954 where Mexicans was not allow on juries and so on in Texas.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernandez_v._Texas
     
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    no, you made up some ****, and attributed it to me. That's why you were called on it.



    Can't do what?
     
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    40 ft ladders average between 63-74 pounds. That is not heavy at all. And it's not like a single solitary person is going to be carrying this ladder, by himself, on foot for miles. It will be carried by a group of people crossing.
     
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    huh? How are border patrol agents going to arrest anyone on the Mexican side of the wall? Lol
     
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    If you have trouble lifting 63 pounds, then you have to be 90 years old, or disabled.
     
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    move the ladder to the other side
     
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    Apparently you think our border can't be secured so why even have one. Just give up and have no border seems to be your plan or should I say your agenda.
     
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    Ever portaged a canoe several miles?
     
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    No need for tanks and explosives 15th century technology could still be used.
     
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    If you have trouble lifting 63 pounds, then you have to be 90 years old, or disabled.
     
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    Cimb off the ladder onto the wall and sit precariously atop a 40 ft wall which is designed not to have a user friendly top and pull up a forty foot ladder as you try to keep your balance and not fall off. Then lower the ladder to the other side onto perfectly flat ground ( which is rare in these areas)so the ladder is stable. Then climb off the wall and onto the ladder to get down. Then the next immigrant in line with his ladder does the same thing and then the next and then... Are you serious?
     
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    You're assumptions are wrong.
    You're world is only black and white. Mine is in full modern color. We've gone over this ground before. I'll stick with a defense in depth and abide by Patton's aphorism that fixed fortifications are monuments to stupidity.
     
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    Sounds like more anonymous fake news to me!
     
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    Yet you are the one that said we can't stop rubber boats.
     
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    And any even moderatly competant thief can get through you car or home lock in seconds.
     
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    Quote me where I said that.

    The fact remains drug smugglers and terrorists will have no problem thwarting a fixed obstacle across a single 1900+ miles of our 12,000+ miles of borders. "Work smarter, not harder"....and don't blow billions of US taxpayer dollars on a project with limited effectiveness.

    The billions blown on a wall do nothing to stop the 40%+ of illegals who came here legally.
     
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    Exactly. You can't stop a truly determined professional thief but you can stop 90% of people that might steal from you if you made it easy. Same goes for securing our border. We can definitely stop the hoards which makes the few much easier to find and deal with over the many miles of desert they have to cross after getting over the actual border.
     
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    Not even 90%. What percentage of illegals cross our Southern border illegally? How many enter the US legally or enter illegally via other borders?
     

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