Your grandma probably told you, \u201cGood fences make good neighbors.\u201d It turns out, she was right. Here\u2019s why: Fences keep uninvited guests out of your backyard.<\/p>\n
North Waziristan sits astride Pakistan\u2019s border with Afghanistan. The terrain is extremely rugged and difficult for the Pakistan Frontier Corps (the local equivalent of the U.S. Border Patrol) to monitor.<\/p>\n
As a result, the region has long been the pipeline via which Afghan smugglers, bandits and terrorists unlawfully enter Pakistan. The lawless nature of the region has prompted U.S. military and diplomatic officials to classify North Waziristan<\/a> as \u201cthe most dangerous place on Earth<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Pakistan has finally had enough. It\u2019s solution?\u00a0 It\u2019s building 1,800 miles of border fence<\/a>. You know, the type that American media pundits claim won\u2019t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of course, Pakistan just seems to be copying the highly effective solution employed by its next-door neighbor. India built a 340-mile double-layer fence<\/a> to keep out bad guys trying to enter its territory from Pakistan.<\/p>\n You see, India has had problems along its borders with both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Those boundaries are marked by long stretches of tough topography that are difficult to police and popular with border-crossing miscreants.<\/p>\n The Indian solution, build a fence. It\u2019s been so effective, India has decided to expand the 350 miles of fence along the Indo-Pakistani border and increase the number of fenced sections along its border with Bangladesh.<\/p>\n On the other side of the world, Hungary built a barrier along its borders with Serbia and Croatia. It was constructed in response to the 2015 migrant crisis. The number of illegal aliens entering Hungary declined precipitously<\/a>.<\/p>\n