So much for "it's a manufactured crisis"..

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(04-02-2019, 08:22 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I heard a former border security official talking about this a while back. Essentially, physical barriers work in urban settings where response time is small. It helps give agents more time to respond by slowing down those crossing. However, in more open areas where response times are measured in hours, sometimes days, they don't have much effect.

I think the data showed that the barriers outside of San Diego did not have the desired effect until they doubled border agents stationed there. All in all, the thing that shows to have an effect is border agents, not barriers.