“The Wall” along Mexico

I’ve been reading a book on global warming (yes, I believe things are getting warmer). One of the issues the author discussed was that habitat fragmentation is a second major environmental issue. As things get warmer, species need to move to a better habitat. So it’s already a problem that ‘nature’ is limited to different parks and reserves that aren’t necessarily connected. Adding a wall makes things all the worse.

Here’s the ‘wall’ at one section. This section is taller than normal (~15’) and its five miles long. The good part is that they have openings in the wall to allow water through that also allows for small animals to move back and forth. However, larger animals have to travel 5 miles to get around this wall. What would they do if the wall was longer?

Apparently, there are people in the Border Patrol that do nothing but repair the wall. People cut through the wall all the time. Again, this is just a small section.

This part of the wall is designed just to keep out cars. There really aren’t any major problems with immigrants crossing in this area. There have been drug smugglers here at the park so now they can’t drive their vehicles across. With all this talk about the wall, most of these people are found with other methods. Cameras, towers, infrared, and other methods are used. None of the people I talked to felt that a “wall” was a modern response to these issues…just old-fashioned and limited thinking.

BTW, I was an illegal alien or at least my foot was.