(01-11-2019 04:40 PM)jaredf29 Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 10:47 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 10:29 AM)jaredf29 Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 09:51 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 12:34 AM)jaredf29 Wrote:  I did watch the video and my take away was that people, regardless of sex or age are willing to throw themselves out of 4 story windows, brave armed guards, and run through razor wire to get to their idea of freedom. I see human beings that are motivated enough won’t let a wall stop them. You may call me dense but I don’t think you can see the forest through the trees.

There are 15K stopped at the Tijuana border right now—causing problems for that city. So, yes—-apparently you can stop them.

The wall isn’t stopping them. What’s stopping them is they’re waiting to turn themselves into a port of entry as per the legal route of doing it. They could’ve walked through a desert wasteland and got in that way if they wanted.

Which is why a formidable wall is necessary. Sorry, but it just doesn't fly that everyone, or even most everyone is going to suddenly have strength and agility that they didn't have before and scale a formidable structure. On top of that, those that may be able to do it will be a much smaller percentage of people to deal with and coming slowly over the structure, instead of being on the dead run as they would have been otherwise, for the Border Patrol to apprehend.

A middle aged woman with young kids (for example) is going to see this as a significant reason not to attempt to break into the country and therefore may well decide not to make the trip to the border at all.

Women will make this trip while menstrating just to decrease the chances of rape. So they’ll risk rape, but just turn around when they see a wall. This article is from the Obama era https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/faci...th-control

This one from this year. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washi...0-assaults

You totally missed the point. They begin the journey with the hopes of breaking into the country undetected. Very few get in via the asylum route. If they KNOW ahead of time that they can no longer go to that vast open desert area to walk across the border into the USA, but would have to try to scale a very high wall instead, THAT is the deterrent to endure the rest of the hardship. The wall presents not only a huge physical obstacle but a physiological one as well. Not many women are going to successfully scale a significant border wall built specifically to make such a thing difficult.

Sure, they can still come and wait for a year or more in Tijuana till their name is called to present their case for asylum, at which point it will most likely be denied and they will then either remain in Mexico or return to their homeland.