by Jack
In the very beginning, when Trump was still stumping for president, I was against building a massive concrete wall along our Mexican border. I still am against the wall. I strongly feel there are better ways to accomplish the same objective using high technology and hiring laws. However, I recognize that walls do work, maybe not as good as other methods, but they do work and they can minimize illegal entry.
The proof walls work is the wall that Turkey built along it’s Syrian border. That is a tough neighborhood and a wall has been very effective so far. The same could be said for Israel’s wall with Palestine, so I know walls do work. And 4 years ago the dems were on board with a wall, but now that it’s Trump’s idea they hate it.
As Donald Trump prepares to build a wall between the USA and Mexico, Turkey has announced the completion of a three-metre high fortification along its border with Syria to prevent refugees and smugglers entering the country. The completed 556-kilometre section is the first phase of a structure that will eventually seal the entire 911-kilometre border between the two countries.
The rest of the wall is due to be completed by the autumn, at which point it would be the second-longest structure in the world, after the 3,460-kilometre Great Wall of China.
Humanitarian expert Killian Kleinschmidt said he saw the wall first hand on a visit to Gazientep in southern Turkey last week.
“You see it running through the mountains, up and down,” he told Dezeen. “It’s really wow. Nobody gets across the border now without the Turks saying so. The Turks are very proud. Trump would love it.”
Kleinschmidt, founder of humanitarian consultancy Switxboard, said that the wall, together with new barriers along Syria’s borders with Lebanon and Jordan, had effectively ended the mass exodus of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war.
“They have made Syria into a very big prison,” he said. “Lebanon has closed its border more or less. There’s no wall but it’s close to being one. Jordan has an earth berm and is using American technology such as night-vision stuff to close its border and nobody gets across.” The measures meant that the outflow of Syrian refugees has “more or less finished,” Kleinschmidt said.
It is estimated that over five million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries since the onset of the civil war in 2011, with almost three million of them seeking asylum in Turkey. Lebanon and Jordan have the next highest refugee populations, with registered numbers standing at one million and 600,000 respectively, although actual figures may be far higher.
The Turkish border wall is comprised of modular concrete blocks each weighing 14 tonnes and is topped by 60 centimetres of razor wire, according to Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak.
The paper said that the blocks were produced by contractors including Toki, a state-run social housing provider.
Turkey’s border with Syria, which was drawn up after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the first world war, starts south of Antakya on the Mediterranean coast. It extends roughly eastwards through the hills of Upper Mesopotamia, across the Euphrates river, and ends at the point where the Tigris river enters Iraq.
When complete, the fortification will also include 67 reinforced defensive towers, 67 watchtowers and around 100 kilometres of illuminated sections.
Since Nancy Peloosi claims walls are “immoral.” when is she gonna tear down HER immoral wall that surrounds her palatial Napa estate?
I can’t imagine being so stupid as to believe having a wall around one’s house means one should support a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border.
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!
“I can’t imagine being so stupid” I can – we see it frequently from Chris.
Guess I’m Chris’ latest target. That’s OK, ’cause I always get a good laugh when he demonstrates his bias and ignorance!
Oh you’re not alone J. Chris loves to attack everyone he doesn’t agree with. What’s so funny is he’s too stupid to realize he’s displaying his own ignorance.
This from a man who abandoned California for his gated Whiteopia?
Odd. Very odd.
Yes, Lippy. You are Odd. Very Odd
I’m deferring to those working at our southern border as to what form of protection we need to keep the illegals, drugs, child/human traffickers, gang member, murderers, rapist and terrorist.
I’m hearing they want a wall in some areas they can see through. Call it a fence or a wall, I don’t care. Just do a combination of physical and technical security systems that will keep our country and it’s citizens safe. I can see the use of drones, motion sensors and monitored video feeds being a valued asset in addition to the see through wall/fence.
Heard Congress approved fund for the “wall” when Janet Reno was AG, but she chose to spend the money elsewhere. I can’t find supporting documentation on this. Anyone else know what the real story is?
And you don’t think there is something just a little bit savage about walling in refugees?
… so they can be strafed or starved at the whim of some bloody dictator? Nasty, I call it.
Libby do you have a lock on your front door? Well, America is our home and our lock is called legal immigration. It’s a system enacted by law by the people. Every country on earth has one, even dictatorships. The bad countries use a border fence to keep their people inside. The really good countries use a fence and border patrol to keep bad people out and direct the rest to the legal immigration door. You got a problem with that?
Truly spurious and lying analogy. And the way things are going, your great-grandkids will curse you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/08/06/why-a-nation-is-not-like-a-house-or-a-club-and-why-the-difference-matters-for-debates-over-immigration/?utm_term=.16c3e76c728e
Good read. Totally agree.
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The Great Wall of America Will Break the Democrats:
By Rich Logis
“Democrats know that the wall is imminent. Is the pending dread more psychologically damaging than the erection of the wall?
Democrats know that the wall is what will finally break them, and no amount of Democrat and Democrat Media Industrial Complex (DMIC) agitprop will ever tear down the wall. It will be the chasm between the old guard and the burgeoning of Leninism within the party.
The wall is deserving of proper name capitalization.
The Democrats know that The Wall will achieve its intent of deterring and preventing mass illegal immigration, which has resulted in an illegal alien population that the federal government has no true, accurate count of.
The Wall will be the physical affirmation of our historic, theory of black swan, glass-ceiling shattering 2016 win over Empress Clinton. Tax reform and withdrawals from bogus deals with Iran and climate change globalist welfare treaties aren’t palpable; I can’t take a selfie in front of the 2018 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. United States Supreme Court justices are a bit more tangible, but the court isn’t omnipresent 24/7.
The Wall, though? That proposed happy marriage of steel, spikes, and concrete? Oh, it will be glorious. I know that President Trump has described The Wall as “beautiful,” but we don’t care if it’s the ugly Christmas sweater of American architecture.”
Continued…
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/the_great_wall_of_america_will_break_the_democrats.html#ixzz5bxoFheLC
Civil Rights commissioner presents case illegals are hurting blacks and other US minorities.
Tucker Carlson, Peter Kirsanow: Illegal Immigration Helps The Rich, Hurts Black Americans Most:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7UVaC3zG3s
Another good read.
“Leveraging the shutdown to get results is a good — and very old — strategy.”
https://spectator.org/president-donald-gandhi-reagan/?fbclid=IwAR0qespdOcr7-7PaDfHnTaYXelg3NDDkV0WnMWgKsyYrMNJf4uvBYCdcXaU
Sauce for the goose?????? How appropriate!
https://www.chicksonright.com/youngconservatives/2019/01/14/activists-immigrants-jump-pelosis-mansion-wall-demand-she-let-them-into-her-home-3/
And here’s an update to the storming of Peloosi’s wall at her palatial Napa estate:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/15/laura-loomer-pitches-tent-pelosis-california-house-protest-illegal-immigration/
How fitting that Loomer and crew are refusing to give identification, saying “Gavin Newsom said we don’t need ID’s.”