Christ on a cracker. The people thinking up things like border fences must be smoking crack. Or maybe they should be.
Not only is that border fence an obscene idea, it’s an ineffective deterrent.
[W]here the 600 miles of fencing are already up, along the borders of California, Arizona and New Mexico, "smugglers and illegal immigrants continue to breach the fencing that is up, forcing Border Patrol agents and contractors to return again and again for repairs," the Wall Street Journal noted Wednesday. "The smugglers build ramps to drive over fencing, dig tunnels under it, or use blow torches to slice through. They cut down metal posts used as vehicle barriers and replace them with dummy posts, made from cardboard."
Of course they do. Money hole. (Our tax dollars.)
But a White House spokesman says construction will continue.
"Mr. Obama supports the fence as long as it is one part of a larger strategy on border security that includes more boots on the ground and increased use of technology," a White House spokesman told the Journal.[...]
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano once famously quipped that a 50-foot barrier would simply spur the invention of a 51-foot ladder.
At least we have one smart person in that Department now.
Today's Daily Twain is an apt accompaniment to this post.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. --Mark Twain
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