Largest Fentanyl seizure was at a port of entry
A wall wouldn’t have stopped this Also on twitter.
Continue reading →A wall wouldn’t have stopped this Also on twitter.
Continue reading →A total of 118 migrants crossed the border in Arizona. Most of these came across using a ladder and a few dug underneath.
Continue reading →The following article discusses roles that technology, particularly AI and drones might play There are a few interesting points made including that an unstaffed wall by itself isn’t effective. The use of drones or other technology might better spread the … Continue reading →
The Pope has suggested A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,… This is not in the Gospel. In addition to the Pope, there was a recent NPR interview … Continue reading →
The following article from the Houston Chronicle explains we have more of an “asylum crisis” than a “border crisis” and why a wall won’t deter those seeking asylum.
Continue reading →Not clear where this might go, but another example that if you don’t have local support of people who live in the border regions, you will encounter roadblocks along the way. This issue seems at least as intense in neighboring … Continue reading →
41 pounds of meth seized at an interior checkpoint. Two items to note: (1) A border wall wouldn’t have done much here. This was discovered not at the border, but at a traffic checkpoint that Google Maps suggests is 45 … Continue reading →
Some perspectives from the California/Mexico border. It isn’t surprising that of nine congressional districts that include the US/Mexico border, there isn’t a single representative that supports Trump’s notion of a wall. For people in these districts, a wall is not … Continue reading →
The Beast was first published in Spanish in 2010 and then translated to English in 2013. It provides accounts of Central American migrants as they travel through Mexico to eventually reaching the US border. I liked the descriptions of the … Continue reading →
What does geology say about a border wall? An article from Smithsonian Magazine explores some of the complexity
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