Everyone That's Bitching About Spending 5 Big On Wall.....

[Mike M (the other one)]

(12-28-2018, 12:32 AM)Au165 Wrote: Not going to quote that long Mike M post, but To your tunnel stuff there are a lot of things incorrect there. We deploy seismic sensors to hopefully pick up on tunneling in certain areas but it doesn’t work depending on depth of tunneling and equipment used. Ground penetrating radar isn’t very good in terms of certain ground types around the border and it’s a slow tedious process that isn’t salable across the length of the border as the imagery must be analyzed it isn’t a binary answer. As to how many tunnels we have found in the grand scheme we only know what we know, but “ a lot of them” is just a guess on your part, border agents aren’t as confident on that. In terms of will the cartel do it, the answer is yes when the price makes sense. They already blindfold people would t be hard to blindfold them and put them on their tunnel carts and roll them across the border.

This is something I am pretty up to speed on as I pointed out in another thread the company I work for does a lot of work with customs and border. We also work in the sensing and detecting field so I got a decent handle on that as well. When it comes to jamming that’s a slippery slope because the radio frequencies you jam can have other uses and the collateral damage can be significant in some circumstances.

so let me ask this,
There was ~300k caught trying to cross in 2017 (this doesn't include those that made it), do you think the cartel will allow anywhere that number? When they can make so much more pushing drugs with less hassle and make more money per pound?

And I have never said the wall will be 100% effective.  That's still a huge savings in the long run.

Glad you're up to date on all of this. how good is the tunnel detection equipment from Israel?