While arguing for the ineffectiveness of a border wall, Representative Maxwell Frost, who made history as the first Generation Z member of Congress, ended up making a better argument against electing any more Generation Z congressmen.
Speaking during the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on border security, Frost argued that border walls don’t work because we have a border wall and illegals are still pouring over the border. All that’s required for this sort of argument to make sense is to completely ignore the roughly two-thirds of the U.S.-Mexico border that’s unguarded by a wall, and Biden's lax enforcement of the laws on the books.
"My colleagues on the other side of the aisle would have us believe that the solution to the fentanyl problem in this country is to discourage both illegal and legal immigration. In comes the wall,” Frost said.
“We know that crossings haven't decreased since we spent $15 billion ... of taxpayer money on that monument of fear,” he added. “The wall kinda reminds me of a sad, decaying Soviet statue,” further added the Congressman whose ideology resembles that of the Soviet Union far more than those he’s criticizing.
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There is, of course, little question that walls work, as was pointed out to Frost by Marjorie Taylor Greene afterwards. "Walls work. That’s why Democrats built one around the Capitol for Joe Biden’s State of the Union tonight."
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But more specific to the exact type of wall at hand, a border wall, the evidence is clear.
As I wrote previously; Hungary constructed a barbed wire fence along their border on Croatia, which was completed in October 2015. The wall was in response to the refugee crisis, tens of thousands of which were illegally entering Hungary. Judging from the figures of illegal entrants into Hungary pictured below, you probably didn’t need to be told October was the month construction was completed:
It took a mere two days before daily migrant captures fell 99%.
Israel has numerous examples of success with walls in combating both illegal entries into their country and reducing terrorism. Israel began constructing their West Bank Barrier in 2002 following a surge in Palestinian terrorism, which immediately cut terrorist deaths nearly in half, before mostly reducing them to the single digits annually.
Israel also began constructing a fence along its border with Egypt in 2010 to thwart illegal entrants from Africa. Illegal entries from Egypt to Israel fell from 10,000+ per year to near-zero. There was an uptick in 2015 as entrants began using ladders at certain border sections to get across, but the border was quickly approved to prevent that from continuing.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
