{"id":21131,"date":"2019-03-01T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21131"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:34:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:34:31","slug":"npr-accidentally-admits-border-fences-are-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/01\/npr-accidentally-admits-border-fences-are-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Accidentally Admits Border Fences Are Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

National Public Radio (NPR), a news outlet that has run\ncountless reports pooh-poohing\nthe idea of border security fences<\/a>, aired a piece on the February\n28 edition of \u201cAll Things Considered<\/a>,\u201d conceding the fact that they\nare. The admission was made in a deceptively titled report, \u201c’No More Deaths\u2019\nVolunteers Face Possible Jail Time for Aiding Migrants,\u201d in which it attributed\nthe increasingly perilous routes being used by illegal migrants to stepped up\nborder enforcement. \u201cOver the past several decades, migrants have turned to\nmore rugged parts of the border to cross, driven there by a larger border\npatrol, and more miles of border fencing,\u201d stated reporter Joel Rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201celeven-foot ladder industry\u201d that critics have been\nassuring us would flourish in response to the construction of ten-foot high\nborder fences hasn\u2019t exactly materialized. What it has done, is redirected\nmigrants to more remote and more dangerous areas of the border \u2013 and that needs\nto stop, by construction of more ten-foot fences and other deterrents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there is one thing all sides in the immigration debate\ncan agree on, is that no one should be dying in the desert attempting to enter\nthe United States. For the open borders advocates, that means, well\u2026open\nborders. For others, that means making it clear to would-be illegal\nborder-crossers that there is no point in trekking across hostile terrain\nbecause it will just lead to more Border Patrol agents, more technology, more\nsecure border fencing, and effective interior enforcement against those who do\nenter illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the report\u2019s sensational headline that people are\nbeing jailed for \u201caiding migrants\u201d in peril by placing water and food along\nremote trails favored by smugglers, that too turns out to be less than\nadvertised. As Rose\u2019s report notes, there is a thin line between aiding\nmigrants, and enticing migrants to risk their lives by making the dangerous\njourney. As one of the No More Deaths volunteers, a man described as \u201can\nexperienced climber and backpacker,\u201d said, \u201cI would not be able to do this\njourney. It is impossible in the summertime to carry enough water,\u201d adding that\nif dehydration doesn\u2019t get you, hypothermia and any number of poisonous snakes\nand lizards might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, getting beyond the suggestion that people are being\npersecuted for attempting to help desperate migrants, the NPR report makes it\nclear that they, and the Border Patrol, both have the same goal: saving lives.\n\u201cI think they mean well,\u201d said Art Del Cueto, vice president of the National\nBorder Patrol Council, the union that represents Border Patrol agents, and an\nfrequent guest at FAIR\u2019s Hold Their Feet\nto the Fire radio row<\/a>. \u201cWe respond to a lot of calls of illegal\naliens in stressful situations, tough medical situations. And we’re the ones\nthat are properly equipped to go out there and save them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, as we have all been taught, there is an\nimportant difference between meaning well and doing good. Besides giving people\nfalse hope that they can make the dangerous journey, \u201csome of the supplies they\nleave wind up in the hands of drug smugglers and human traffickers,\u201d Del Cueto\nexplains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, perhaps the best answer to a situation that has arisen\nfrom secure fencing in easily traversed sections of the border is \u201cmore miles\nof fencing\u201d (and other measures) in areas of the border that everyone agrees\npeople should not go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Public Radio (NPR), a news outlet that has run countless reports pooh-poohing the idea of border security fences, aired a piece on the February 28 edition of \u201cAll Things Considered,\u201d conceding the fact that they are. The admission was made in a deceptively titled report, \u201c’No More Deaths\u2019 Volunteers Face Possible Jail Time for<\/p>\n

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