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Home Front: Politix
The Cheapest Way to Build POTUS' Wall
2017-03-29
[Bloomberg] The spring of 2008 was a grim time for the U.S. military in Baghdad. Not least among the problems were rockets raining down on the Green Zone, which housed government offices and foreign embassies, from a suburb of the Iraqi capital called Sadr City. American forces fought back and captured launch locations, but the missiles kept falling.

That’s when the military opted for a strategy that would resonate, years later, with the border-control philosophy of President Donald Trump: building a big wall.

In just six weeks, U.S. and Iraqi soldiers placed 3,000 precast concrete slabs, each standing 12 feet high and weighing about 9 tons, to block enemy fighters from important positions. It wasn’t easy. The militia tried to disrupt the construction with improvised explosive devices and snipers, according to a paper published by the Rand Corp. Gunmen routinely took aim at personnel who had the unenviable job of climbing to the top of the barriers and freeing each concrete slab from the cables of construction cranes. But the wall went up quickly, and the missiles stopped.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Once you dry up the illegals job market, you cut the incentive for illegals to come, and many return back south.

Send employers to jail and it will all happen quickly.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-03-29 21:58  

#5  I always preferred a sea level canal. Consider it a long term jobs program.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-03-29 19:15  

#4  It seems to me that one must see border security as a system, that is, you are dealing with a physical barrier, an underground barrier to discourage digging tunnels, and sensors and instrumentation to sense threats on both sides of the border, above ground, on the surface, and underground. You must have ways to respond and neutralize these threats in a timely and effective manner. A simple wall will not do that. You need it all.

In addition, you must put the monkey on the back of the employers that willingly hire illegals, creating an underground employment pool at the expense of the citizens. Once you dry up the illegals job market, you cut the incentive for illegals to come, and many return back south.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-03-29 18:09  

#3  Cheapest way might be robotic with 3Dconcrete printers.



or onsite printing

Posted by: 3dc   2017-03-29 17:41  

#2  12 ft won't stop a ladder, or tunnelers.
A dead zone sandwich of radioactive waste now...keep thinking.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-29 11:30  

#1  The U.S. military has become expert at building concrete walls Trump seems to have the right people in the right positions to follow thru on this. Forget about the "aesthetically-pleasing on the U.S. side of the border" requirement--it is unrealistic and you will never please everyone.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-29 09:54  

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