Border Walls Work

Article CAIRCO note: 
Photos and statistics from around the world show that border walls are hugely effective
Article author: 
Westley Parker
Article publisher: 
American Renaissance
Article date: 
24 February 2018
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

Border walls are surprisingly common. Two-thirds of the world’s people live in countries that protect their borders with a wall or fence. Governments build these barriers because they are an effective way to keep people out....

 

The Berlin Wall
 
The Berlin Wall was a 96-mile concrete barrier separating East and West Berlin. The 12-foot-high wall was built in 1961, reinforced the following year, and got a major overhaul in the late 1970s....
 
 
Israel-Egypt Barrier
 
Israel takes border security very seriously. In January 2010, it decided to reinforce the fence on its border with Egypt to keep out terrorists and African [illegal] immigrants.
 
 
Israeli West Bank Barrier
 
The 25-foot-tall barrier runs along the border between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank. For most of its length, it is a concrete wall, but in some places it is a fence. Construction began in 2002, in the midst of the Second Intifada, or armed Palestinian uprising. By 2012, 63 percent (277 miles) of the border was walled or fenced, but there has been little construction since then....
 
 
Hungarian Border Fence
 
In 2015, more than a million migrants poured into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East. That year, 410,000 crossed the Hungarian border. On a per capita basis, that would be like 14,000,000 illegal aliens entering the United States in a single year.
 
In July 2015, Hungary began building a 13-foot-tall fence along its borders with Serbia and Croatia. The 109-mile fence was completed on October 16, 2015 at a cost of roughly $106 million.
 
 
U.S. Border Fence – Southwest Border Sectors
 
The Secure Fence Act, passed by Congress in 2006, authorized the Department of Homeland Security to build 652 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border. Ideally, a fence should cover the entire area it is meant to protect, but the law left large areas unguarded.
 
 
Widespread Use of Barriers
 
Border barriers are the international norm. Only 25 percent of the world’s population live in countries that do not have a border fence or wall—something far more substantial and lengthy than a fence at a border check point. Ten percent of the world’s population live on islands with no land borders. Fully 65 percent live behind barriers.
 
See the original article for photos and charts showing border wall effectiveness.
 

 

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