Yes. In 2000, before drone and motion sensor technology was ubiquitous and cost effective.
No one is claiming that we should spend nothing on border security. We're just claiming that there are better, more cost effective methods available than a physical wall. When Schumer and Pelosi talk about it, they all agree that it is a humanitarian crisis. The next sentence, however, disputes the claim that the crisis will be solved by a physical barrier, but rather will intensify it.
The very idea that the humanitarian crisis at the border constitutes a national emergency is ridiculous. If anyone thinks a national emergency is solved by 10+ years of wall construction and tens of billions of dollars in additional cost and maintenance, then I have a beachfront property in Idaho to sell you.
No one is claiming that we should spend nothing on border security. We're just claiming that there are better, more cost effective methods available than a physical wall. When Schumer and Pelosi talk about it, they all agree that it is a humanitarian crisis. The next sentence, however, disputes the claim that the crisis will be solved by a physical barrier, but rather will intensify it.
The very idea that the humanitarian crisis at the border constitutes a national emergency is ridiculous. If anyone thinks a national emergency is solved by 10+ years of wall construction and tens of billions of dollars in additional cost and maintenance, then I have a beachfront property in Idaho to sell you.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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