Gonna Build Us a Wall

So the House and Senate have decided we're gonna build us a wall to secure our southern border from the terrorist hordes streaming into the country with their evil drugs and such like. Too bad if it irritates our neighbor (as noted in my earlier post here), we simply must have us a wall.

The only problem with this wall, however, is that it can't be built, and not just because neither the House nor the Senate have appropriated the funding necessary to build it. From today's Washington Post:

Building a fence in an attempt to secure the U.S. border with Mexico is impractical and would simply lead illegal immigrants to cross elsewhere, according to former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and other experts.

...The fence would also stretch through parts of California, New Mexico and Texas.

Former U.S. customs agents who have hunted drug traffickers in the mountains and deserts near the Arizona border said the new barrier would be defeated by the rugged terrain.

"You can't build a wall across the mountains of southern Arizona, as much of the terrain is inaccessible even on foot," veteran agent Lee Morgan said as he stood along the proposed route of the fence, east of Douglas.

The barrier would have to traverse the rugged Huachuca Mountains and other craggy ranges west of Nogales, Ariz., which are marked by bluffs and ravines that make them inaccessible to vehicle traffic, Morgan noted.

Another former customs special agent said the fencing would also struggle to bridge hundreds of creek beds spanning the Arizona-Sonora border, which are prone to flash floods from May to October.

My guess that the plans for the mighty wall were drawn up by some subsidiary of Halliburton.

Color me snickering.