re: #697 karmic_inquisitor

My impulse is to agree with your instinct on that. But I live near the border and things have gotten worse. The criminality in the northern frontier (just over our border) is pretty bad. Tijuana is getting to be as dangerous as Baghdad.

If you look at Google Earth and “fly over” the northern border towns you will see that they are smack up against the border. You look at the infrastructure and see in 3d that these cities are basically attached to the US. They completely depend on the US. And many now have tunnels running under the border on a scale bigger than anything in Gaza. All of that spells trouble and an inability to seal the border.

So I look at it militarily and the terrain is ideal for obstacles in depth. From a humanitarian standpoint, the northern cities will benefit and survive in peace under such an arrangement.

An alternative would be to “fall back” and create the same buffer on US soil. But that would mean abandoning cities like Brownsville, El Paso and San Diego.

Anyway - I don’t think we could seal the border in such an environment - it isn’t sealed now.

How would your defense in depth work? I’m curious.