Astounding Discovery–Taller Fences Work Better !
[Allan Wall] @ 7:05 pm

The U.S. government has trillions of dollars and can hire all sorts of smart people and buy all sorts of high-tech equipment. But there’s no substitute for common sense.

A recent Christian Science Monitor article by Daniel B. Wood announces the astounding discovery that taller fences work better. It’s entitled “Where U.S.-Mexico border fence is tall, border crossings fall.“: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0401/p01s05-usgn.html

Here are some earth-shattering excerpts:

[quote]US border patrol agent Michael Bernacke guns his SUV down the wide desert-sand road that lines the US-Mexican border through urban San Luis, Ariz. To his right stands a steel wall, 20 feet high and reinforced by cement-filled steel piping. To his left another tall fence of steel mesh. Ten yards beyond, a shorter cyclone fence is topped with jagged concertina wire. Visible to the north, through the gauze of fencing are the homes and businesses of this growing Southwest suburbia of 22,000 people. “This wall works,â€