Reconsidering a Border Fence

 

I’ve mentioned before that I don’t want a border wall, per se, but rather would like a border fence. I’ve advocated a physical barrier both because I consider it a humane and practical enforcement mechanism, and because I think it evinces a determination to actually secure the nation’s borders and assert our right to moderate and control immigration. A double fence has always seemed to me the more practical (and, frankly, aesthetically acceptable) choice.

I now realize that calling for a fence was a mistake, for a reason I didn’t appreciate until now.

Consider: A fence is completely ineffective against straws. Straws are skinny, and even a chicken wire barrier is inadequate to prevent their ingress.

If we are to keep California straw-free, as the law increasingly requires, we’ll need a wall.

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  1. Western Chauvinist Member
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    E. Kent Golding (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    What is amazing is that SCOTUS can find the right to abortion in the constitution. The right to gay marriage and many more things only they can see but do not see the right to a plastic straw.

    The Founders drank their beverages out of bottles, glasses, and aluminum cans — like men.

    Straws are for sissies. They should be banned.

    Beer through a straw is an interesting experience. It helps to have had a few before you try it. Otherwise, better judgement kicks in.

    I live in Colorado. I’d love to stop emigration from California. I propose a swap. Colorado takes all the conservatives out of California, and returns all the loony leftists ruining this place. Then we wall off California.

    Oh, and we’ll take their straws, too.

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  2. TheSockMonkey Inactive
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    I had hoped Ricochet was already opposed to fences, instead of walls, due to the Pop-tart gun menace. With a so-called “chain link” fence,* sub-compact Pop-tart guns can fit through. Border Patrol has warned that increasing numbers of Tamarind and Sangria-flavored Pop-tart guns are being found in border-adjacent areas of the Southwest.

    *”Chain link,” like “chain migration,” is obviously a racist term, and best avoided.

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  3. Henry Racette Member
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    TheSockMonkey (View Comment):

    I had hoped Ricochet was already opposed to fences, instead of walls, due to the Pop-tart gun menace. With a so-called “chain link” fence,* sub-compact Pop-tart guns can fit through. Border Patrol has warned that increasing numbers of Tamarind and Sangria-flavored Pop-tart guns are being found in border-adjacent areas of the Southwest.

    *”Chain link,” like “chain migration,” is obviously a racist term, and best avoided.

    Your sober perspicacity is a balm.

    (I just accidentally posted that somewhere else, and couldn’t figure out how to delete the comment. Now it’s blank, as if I were gathering my thoughts and reserving the soapbox for something profound. Ain’t gonna happen.)

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  4. TheSockMonkey Inactive
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):
    Your sober perspicacity is a balm.

    I try never to careen, or to career. Heck, I barely have a career.

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