Walls Work! Revisiting the Trump Border Wall
While I have not seen much discussion about it in the media, there have been a few articles discussing Trump’s plans for immigration immediately upon taking office. These plans range from dismantling President Biden’s ridiculous parole program for illegal aliens to ceasing the flights that are importing some 30,000 people a month to this country. Just recently, on the eve of Thanksgiving, Tom Homan appeared before members of Texas’ incredibly successful border security force operating Operation Lone Star and he reiterated that there would be a mass deportation of illegals. A deportation which a vast majority of Americans – including 67% of White Americans and 53% of Hispanic Americans – want to see carried out.
Governor Abbott, Incoming Border Czar Homan Serve Thanksgiving Meals To Operation Lone Star Service Members November 26, 2024
These policies are fantastic and will put a modest brake on the ever-rolling train of the Great Replacement that is transforming this country beyond recognition. One of the policies I have not seen discussed in detail is the unfinished border wall, though.
Reuters reported on November 12th from “sources” within the Trump camp that the incoming administration will declare the border to be a national emergency and use that declaration to unlock the funding necessary to complete the border wall. This is fantastic news, but those American nationalists and patriots who support a border wall policy must be prepared to defend it against the onslaught of media and public backlash that will come.
During the first Trump administration left wing and liberal think tanks such as the Brookings Institute attacked the border wall as both inhumane and impractical. They even produced a handy animation claiming that the border wall could not be constructed over the tall mountains that make up parts of the US border with Mexico.
Brookings: “Mountainous terrain along the U.S.-Mexico border is an obstacle to building a wall. Depicted here: a stretch of border about 100 miles east of San Diego. Google Earth.“
This is rather interesting, not least because it paints Americans as dullards who cannot figure out how to build barriers over mountains.
Turkey was able to construct a border barrier along its entire frontier with Iran, a barrier which incidentally prevented the crossing of tens of thousands of Afghan migrants who had moved across Iran in various waves as they attempted to transit to Turkey and eventually into Europe.
The Turkish border wall is roughly 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and composed of solid reinforced concrete.
Most importantly, though, the border between Iran and Turkey is incredibly mountainous, the most mountainous area in the Middle East, and yet the Turks are capable of building this wall through the peaks and valleys.
Then there is the LA Times. In 2017 the paper haughtily proclaimed that the goofball Donald Trump could not possible build a wall along the entire border because the Rio Grande serves to demarcate much of the Texas-Mexico frontier. [You Can Build A Wall—Except Here, A River Runs Through It, By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, January 30, 2017] Once again it appears that the institutional liberals did not do even the most basic research.
I once again turn to Turkey and its borders. The first part of the Turkish border with Syria runs along rivers such as the Orontes River near the Mediterranean Sea. At other points the border is split briefly by the ancient Euphrates and Tigris rivers. On top of this the border is mountainous – though not as much as the frontier with Iran – and yet the Turks have managed to construct a border barrier of magnitude and strength to the border wall with Iran.
The concrete wall with Syria runs for 764-kilometers of the 911-kilometer frontier and runs along rivers, through valleys, and yes over mountain tops and steep hills.
It appears that the Turks have—through skill the LA Times and Brookings believe Americans do not possess—managed to construct a border barrier along the banks of a river as seen below.
According to the Migration Policy Institute’s data the wall worked! The wall was completed in the closing months of 2018 and by 2020 the number of illegal aliens arrested in Turkey crashed from a peak of nearly 480,000 in 2019 to an average of about 200,000 today, a reduction of more than half.
There are other border barriers constructed in recent times that have been wildly successful as well. Hungary famously constructed a border barrier that runs along the entirety of its borders with Croatia and Serbia, once the primary migrant route into the European Union.
The 13 feet tall (4 meter) barrier was successful in every way conceivable. Construction began in September of 2015 and continued for much of that month. September also happened to be the peak of illegal crossings into Hungary by migrants. Some 138,000 people crossed into Hungary and Europe in that month, but as the border was completed crossings plummeted. They fell to 99,500 in October of 2015, a reduction of nearly 40,000 crossings, and by November of 2015 when much of the border barrier was complete crossings fell to just 315!
Since this time Hungary has experienced, at most, roughly 4,500 illegal crossings a month into the country.
Macedonia also constructed a border fence during the migrant crisis, as did Slovenia along its border with Croatia. These actions effectively closed the Balkan migrant route, according to the EU border agency Frontex. While the route is not entirely devoid of migrant attempts to cross it is no longer in the many millions that it once was in 2015 and 2016, instead barely 100,000 people a year have made the journey along the Balkan route.
Imagine with me that America is able to complete its border wall with Mexico, including along the Rio Grande River and over the mountains which Liberals seem to think Americans are too dumb to conquer.
Drug smuggling, crime, rape, torture, human trafficking and most importantly massive illegal immigration would all grind to a halt. These activities would be reduced to a shadow of their current glory. Drug cartels would lose not one but multiple sources of lucrative revenue, less Americans would die of overdoses, fewer of us would be killed by illegal aliens and sex crimes would begin to go down as fewer violent unknown persons entered this country.
Border walls work. They are good policy and good investments.
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