I fail to see how what I do in a prison makes a difference,
lol really? So if a janitor started telling you how to how to fix the prison, you would consider them an expert? Never has the term "expert" meant so little.
If he was telling me how to fix the plumbing then yes.
But this has nothing to do with entry/exit points, searches/shakedowns, etc, designed to curtail illicit activity related to escapes/trafficking.
Every staff person has experience with dealing with this and every staff person is fully aware of how the fact of limiting points of entry/egress into and out of the facility works as designed.
but I have performed a wide range of duties, from correctional officer up to and including assistant warden.
Let's assume you are telling the truth: how many escapes does a wall prevent versus an unwalled prison?
That data is readily available to you to look up.
Look up escape numbers from prisons and then see what type of facility it is and whether or not it has a wall or fence.
The ones with walls is less than the ones with a fence (in turn being less than the ones with no fence).
Also, conflating the effectiveness of a wall for a prison versus a nation seems to be a terrible idea.
Aside from just stating, "...seems to be a terrible idea." how about clearly stating HOW or even WHY it is a terrible idea.
I thought that would be obvious, but ok. The US border is not just land, but also water and air, so unlike a prison, there is a very real possibility of sailing or flying right past your wall.
Yes, there is. Who stated there wasn’t?
The US border is about 2,000 miles making patrolling the border, because it will still need patrolling, and repairing the wall, significantly larger of a logistical issue than a prison wall.
False. The facts prisons have walls reduces the need of consisting patrolling. Less constant patrols are required.
Some of their checkpoints see considerably more traffic in a day than some prisons would likely see in a year meaning there is a need for more thorough, varied and stringent policies and processes for accessing those points.
Yes. The fact a wall requires them to now seek entry via specific access points and there will be an increase of agents and other staff at these points to deal with the appropriate issues.
I am not denying that walls work TWO WAYS.
Great, I never said you did. Now, what are you talking about?
Written preemptive strike.
I am also not unaware the corporations who benefit highly from freedom of movement/relocation seem to be immune from scrutiny when they do so.
Generally, I am for LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT POSSIBLE for every human; HOWEVER...
With that amount of freedom comes responsibility.
Do we act to curtail the bad actors or not?
This is a false dilemma implying a wall is the only solution and there can be no other. No thanks.
Wrong. My writing does not imply a wall is the only solution and it clearly delineates the precise dilemma whether you choose to accept it or not. There are all kinds of “barriers,” or proverbial “walls,” in place all over the place and in many different settings. Their primary purpose, wherever they exist, is to curtail “bad actors.”
Thank you, I will look at that now.
I see. Here is the footnote to that data, emphasis mine:
"The above statistics are estimates derived from data provided by foreign governments and other sources and reviewed by the Department of State. Aggregate data fluctuates from one year to the next due to the hidden nature of trafficking crimes, dynamic global events, shifts in government efforts, and a lack of uniformity in national reporting structures. The numbers in parentheses are those of labor trafficking prosecutions, convictions, and victims identified."
I think it is evident many of those governments have faulty reporting, in many cases due to outright complicity in the practice of human trafficking and abuse itself (including former officials in US Government, about to be held responsible and pay the price!)
I don't agree it is evident. Regardless, that could call in to question the numbers for the entire hemisphere, maybe, but it wouldn't affect the USA's self-reporting in the slightest. Let's be generous and say that the 75% of the victims from that report are in the US; that means there are only 7,500 victims which is a whole order of magnitude lower than what you were citing. If my statistics are more accurately representing the problem, then this does not seem to be a national emergency. A tragedy, yes, but not a national emergency. The four previous national emergencies were a 1933 banking crisis, which affected a majority of Americans, the Korean War, a 1970 postal strike, affecting a majority of americans and a 1971 inflation crisis, affect a majority of americans. Unless it can be shown that the scale is the same, invoking emergency powers to fulfill a campaign promise seems to be frivolous at best.
Doesn’t surprise me in the least you don’t see it. Willful blindness is hard to cure.
There is no need to be generous at all. I provided the real numbers from Harvard Law.
You are just like Nancy Pelosi and don’t want to read or recognize what you believe to be my facts.
I got news, the same news Nielsen gave Pelosi. These are not my facts…they are THE FACTS.