Seems like it would be pretty easy just to use a cutting torch to put doors through the container. Heck, put some solar panels on the top, and you have affordable border housing,
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For 6,000 years people have been building castle walls and other people have been figuring out how to get through, over or under them.
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What a way to beautify the state!
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On Monday, the line at the Tijuana-San Diego checkpoint was a 3-hour wait for foot travelers. The people I was in line with and I were joking that the narco tunnel operators could make some serious money if they would just charge folks 5 bucks a head to use the tunnels. /s
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This is what I don’t get, do these idiots seriously think that ladders are unobtainable in Mexico?
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Yeesh. You are more patient than I!
Do you bring a chair, or do you have to stand the whole time?
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Just sayin’
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I had my bicycle, so I was able to rest on my laurels a bit. I even let the folks I was talking to (a nice couple of Mexican nationals) use the cargo rack to rest their bags upon. Standing in a line that long, it’s a nice opportunity to meet new people even though the wait time sucks. They even shared their peaches with me.
You just reminded me of the guy in line who had a disability (maybe a spinal issue) who needed help making it to the first fence. No wheelchairs available, and two guys practically had to support him because he couldn’t even keep up with the line.
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That’s what I’m talking about. And a parasol, for sure.
I would rather walk miles through the desert and climb over shipping containers than stand on asphalt or concrete in a line for 3 hours!
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Already covered. An enterprising woman was selling umbrellas at 5 bucks a pop. I wish I had cash at the time. I got a sunburn because I wasn’t prepared.
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Let’s see, 8,800 40’ cargo containers at some $5k each (wholesale price in bulk for new), just sitting there in the desert, literally abandoned and unwatched – someone is going to make a killing salvaging these things and putting them back into service. Even their scrap value makes them prime salvage, let alone their ability to ship things. If not, they are just painted steel parked right next to a river prone to large floods, there will be nothing left but rust in a few years, less if they don’t keep them painted.
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Or right through the sides. Contrary to popular understanding, the walls of shipping containers are not sturdy. They are sheet metal and not especially thick. All the weight is borne by the corners- that’s their whole deal. They are very efficient in use of materials because they can be stacked crazy high while using minimal steel to make.
A cordless angle grinder and about 20 minutes is probably all you would need to make a nice doggie door on both sides.
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Yeah, this thing looks totally performative. Even if they filled the containers with concrete to bypass the “cutting through” challenge, they haven’t addressed the “tunneling under” or “climbing over” challenges.
Border agents have long said they’d be better served by increased patrols and surveillance mechanisms (not to mention fixing immigration backlogs by staffing the judiciary that deal with that stuff), but where’s the photo opp in that?
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I have a couple of Bookniture seats that I backed on Kickstarter years ago that I could carry if I were going to be in that situation.
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The Maginot Line part ducey.
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Holy crap, that would be expensive.
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To be honest that’s my go-to solution for, well, pretty much everything, really.
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i hate to put anyone out of a job(*) but the most efficient use of resources would be to stop most of the patrols and open the borders
not only would it bring inflation down by easing the pressure on unfilled jobs while stopping employers from using the threat of deportation to pay substandard wages… it’d starve the drug traffickers of illicit human traffic, forcing more of them to use monitored routes making them easier to catch.
it’d also enable more people to leave when they want to. right now, both directions are too risky (**)
all this fencing madnesses is only helping to create the very conditions that the gop claim to want to stop ( which is probably the point 
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(* okay, i don’t mind )
( ** plus, you know. it’s what the founders would have wanted. the phrase “border wall” isn’t even in the constitution )
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Also, take law enforcement off of the clerical duties and assign those jobs to normal government folks who have the proper clearance. As I cross the border, it’s plain to see that so much of the problem is cops as pencil pushers.
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