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The idea of building a wall on our southern border is just plain stupid. Anyone can go over, through or under it which has already been done. What we need is a channel or canal like the Panama canal. The government should acquire all the land from the Gulf to the Pacific one mile inland, then right in the center place the canal or channel. If it was not a lock system but just an open channel then use the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Navy to patrol it. To build it use the Army's Corps of Engineers and the Navy's Seabees. No bridges, just government owned ferries.
The idea of building a wall on our southern border is just plain stupid. Anyone can go over, through or under it which has already been done. What we need is a channel or canal like the Panama canal. The government should acquire all the land from the Gulf to the Pacific one mile inland, then right in the center place the canal or channel. If it was not a lock system but just an open channel then use the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Navy to patrol it. To build it use the Army's Corps of Engineers and the Navy's Seabees. No bridges, just government owned ferries.
The idea of building a wall on our southern border is just plain stupid. Anyone can go over, through or under it which has already been done. What we need is a channel or canal like the Panama canal. The government should acquire all the land from the Gulf to the Pacific one mile inland, then right in the center place the canal or channel. If it was not a lock system but just an open channel then use the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Navy to patrol it. To build it use the Army's Corps of Engineers and the Navy's Seabees. No bridges, just government owned ferries.
Your idea is infinitely more ridiculous than the proposed wall itself. By way of comparison with the Panama Canal which inspired you hallucination, the Panama Canal is 48 miles long, only a fraction of which consist of the main locks which are its prominent feature, and these are only 110 ft. wide. The 13 lock gates used to raise ships above and lower them back down to sea level raise the water level a mere 87 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. Think about that for just a moment. Over the entire 48-mile trip through the canal, the waterline of any ship is never higher than 87 feet above sea level.
Far more importantly, the feasibility of the canal MAJORLY depends on a series of man-made lakes, the largest of which is Gatun Lake, the largest man-made lake in the world. "Man-made" doesn't mean they dug it out. It means they damned existing rivers and allowed the river valleys to fill up creating large bodies of navigable water. In other words, the existing terrain in that area was supremely conducive to a navigable waterway connecting the Earth's two major oceans. The major land excavation was through what was then known as Gaillard Cut (now known as Culebra Cut). That excavation, while still representing one of the greatest engineering feats of mankind, is a mere 7.8 miles from the Pedro Miguel lock on the Pacific side to the Chagres River arm of Lake Gatun near Gamboa.
Now comes you suggesting construction of a canal NOT across a 50-mile isthmus of land between two oceans but rather a 2,000-mile, mile wide channel across four states of the American desert southwest traversing that portion of the Continental Divide sporting mountainous peaks in the range of 7,000 ft. asl and with nary a drop of natural water to impound as an assist, and whose only major river (the Colorado) has been wrung dry by metropolitan areas ranging from Denver to the east and Los Angeles to the west.
That's not just dumb. That's mindfuckingly dumb, the stupidity of which would be aptly demonstrated the first time an illegal floated across it in an inner tube.
But it gets worse. This whole nonsense of a southern border wall ignores the fact that the illegal immigration problem is not essentially geographic -- as least not equally distributed across a 2,000 mile expanse. It is a problem of enforcement. Nearly half of all illegal immigrants, including many Hispanics, are LEGAL immigrants who have overstayed their LEGAL VISAS. Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of illegal border crossings take place at known points surrounding the handful of U. S. and Mexican border towns.
Do yourself a favor and look at a GeoEarth image of our southern border, and you'll see why. The vast expanse of that geography is among the most inhospitable on Earth. There is not a road, town or rusted out mine shack for hundreds of miles in any direction. Nor is there a border fence separating the two countries. Because the only illegal crossings it would likely deter are those of armadillos, gila monsters and a comparably brain dead handful of humans who frequently DIE each year making the attempt.
A 1,000-mile wall costing untold billions of dollars across our southern border is a disproportionate solution specifically relevant to its construction by orders of magnitude. Hopefully candidate Trump is a sufficiently shrewd businessman that he will eventually recognize that if he doesn't secretly already.
Aah Colonel, think of fun that could be had if this proposal of a saltwater moat could be a reality. Filled with sharks, it might become a spectator sport.