France and Britain just beat Donald Trump to building a border wall

[Idaho_Cowboy]

France and Britain just beat Donald Trump to building a border wall
By James McAuley & Michael Birnbaum The Washington Post
Published Sept. 29, 2016
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CALAIS, France --- So far, Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border is all talk. Last week, France and Britain actually began building one along theirs.

Construction started here on a roughly mile-long concrete barrier intended to separate a sprawling migrant camp from the tunnels that offer passage to Britain, the latest attempt in what has become a global effort to throw physical barriers in the way of historic streams of human migration.

From a razor-wire-topped border fence in Hungary to the sealed border of Macedonia and Greece to Trump's proposed wall, polarized societies across the world are finding that they can unite around keeping others at bay.

The "Great Wall of Calais," as the project is informally known, is considerably shorter than Trump's proposed partition of the United States and Mexico, but its message is much the same: keep out....
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0916/other_walls.php3#6ivyedRwspgpaHyr.99

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Don't get me wrong. This wall is a great start, but it's gonna take more.

The French have built walls before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line

Next step is finding out if and why their own 5th column is in country illegally and deporting them.

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/11/18/wont-obama-follow-law-use-religious-test-refugees/

"We are actually, legally required to consider religion as a criteria for admission as refugees. "




http://wulfanson.blogspot.com

[geronl]

Why would Britain need a wall and where would it put it.....

[Fishrrman]

Walls work.
It's that simple.
They are passive barriers -- the greater the barrier, the more effective it is.

I saw this first-hand in West and in East Berlin in the spring of 1971. The Berlin wall was one of the best-designed "people barriers" ever built, using not only walls, but watchtowers with motorized patrols between the walls.

Yes, some people got "through it" -- but those who did were a mere drop in the ocean vis-a-vis those who were detained from doing so.
All the more impressive as it was designed to keep people -in-.

In its time, the Berlin wall served as a working example of how to control migration.

You may dislike the reason for its construction, but there's no denying its efficacy.