Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The Border Crisis: How Can We Fix It? || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. I'm sure those farmers would gladly sell a mile-deep strip of their land so that the feds can install an effective defense in depth that minimizes the number of new hires on a permanent government payroll.
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  2. Until cartels develop innovations in demining an area, and now you've just armed drug runners with IEDs.
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  3. Barriers are a force multiplier, but there has to be a force to multiply. That ironically means more government spending on expensive personnel who can effectively react to incursions.
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  4. That's because there's now too few ways to immigrate legally. It's only gotten more restricted over time. Hence the surge of irregular entry for immediate asylum claim to get a case processed in a reasonable amount of time.
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  5. Hence why it's more economical for immigrants to just enter irregularly and claim asylum. Legal pathways are just too limited if they're even available anymore.
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  6. That's ironically a big reason why illegal immigration became a problem. Before locking down the border in the 90s, illegals would regularly cross back south quietly and only come over seasonally. A sealed border means they're trapped by the raised threat of imprisonment and uncertainty of access to employment.
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  7. We don't have the funds though. Just buying out the land required for this project could be better spent on renovating the rest of the nation's infrastructure. America has better things to spend out tax dollars on than trying to stop every asylum seeker who'd have otherwise been killed at home waiting for us to process a proper visa.
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  8. The narrowing paths of legal immigration over time are likewise a change of definition on paper. My own parents would not be able to immigrate here under current policies, and they're retired American civil servants.
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  9. But then it runs into the conundrum of government spending on hiring expensive federal employees and overpriced contractors to effectively staff said wall.
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  10. The government would then be blamed for the accelerating inflation and increasing reliance on imports in a migrant-free American economy.
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  11. ​ @Likeaworm Thing is many would be happy to surrender to a US officer on sight. That way they can get their asylum claim started because legal paths are so narrow, costly, and overcrowded with applicants.
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  12. ​ @scottahermann Deportation requires the receiving end to agree taking them and organizing drop off points. We're not parachuting them over some random spot in some other country, especially a country that the deportees also don't belong to and would also be an illegal in.
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  13. Legal isn't bad... if it's reasonably available.
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  14. ​ @tyree9055 Not every servicemember is a shooter, in fact the "tooth to tail" ratio is like 8~12 support personnel for every one actually geared for engagement. A civilian law enforcement outfit wouldn't be much more efficient. Also you may want to look again at how sealed the Afghan-Pak border really was.
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  15. ​ @JinKee Til those drones are hacked, downed, or spoofed into attacking the wrong target, and now you've just armed the very people we're trying to keep out.
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  16. The history of what's "legal" should be considered. Before WW1 immigrants only needed to be white and not hacking up a lung as they came off the ship, and not only was identification and criminal history often left uninvestigated but they were even offered a legal change of name on the spot. The descendants of such simple survivors of a routine boat ride makes up the majority of Americans today.
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  17. IT equipment is simple, they follow its programming reliably on only electricity and cool air. Humans need food, bathroom breaks, hours of daily downtime, and easily misinterpret or ignore even the most detailed instructions.
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  18. Changing the facts on the ground involves putting boots on the ground, and the immigration problem isn't an organized mass destruction threat big enough to warrant another adventure in regime change.
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  19. A: A country where millions more citizens are mis-skilled, medically disabled, and increasingly retired.
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