Stupid Border Wall: echo from Mississippi with a history lesson

A stupid Border Wall is an ancient idea- An opinion letter from Moss Point*, Mississippi, echo published in the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper.  

General George Patton quotes:  Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
Quoted in 50 Military Leaders Who Changed the World‎ (2007) by William Weir, p. 173
Unsourced variant: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.

In my opinion, a border wall will be a target for sabotage.  Besides, you don't need to be a four star general to realize how the Vietnamese built tunnels in their strategy to defeat the Americans in the Vietnam war....

Dear Editor:  General George S. Patton said, "Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man."

The justification for building a wall at the US southern border based on walls that were built during ancient times is absurd. A wall is a 16th century solution for a 21st century problem.

The facts show, a majority of illegal immigrants come into the U.S. from overstayed visas. The majority of drugs come in through open posts of entry, and some through an array of tunnels. Apprehensions of illegal aliens ar our southern border are at historic lows, down from a high of 220,000 a mont in 2000 to 40,000 a month in 2019.

People would have you believe 4,000 suspected terrorists have been apprehended at our southern border, but the actualy nuber is 6 (six!), the other 3, 994 were detained at airports, worldwide. These people are being wrongly portrayed as being criminals, murderers and thieves, out to crate crime in our streets. 

Yet, studies prove that the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants living in America commit less crime than the general population. These people are just poor souls, looking for a better life, running from poverty and/or certain death from corruption and crime in their native countries.

The majority of illegal immigrant refugees now come from Central American Northern Triangle area. That's not to way we should have open borders, we don't. Yes, we need to account for everybody entering our country but we need to be smart about it, cost effective and humane, and not waste upward of $30 billion dollars for ancient walls.

From David Cameron, Moss Point Mississippi

*Post Script from Maine Writer- I looked up "Moss Point", a practice I try to do before publishing "echoes", to verify locations of the authors. I discovered that this location in Mississippi was devastated by hurricane Katrina. Therefore, I'd say, border walls are not only stupid, ancient and subject to destruction, but also at risk for the destruction caused by natural disasters.

Moss Point is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,704 at the 2010 census, down from 17,653 at the 2000 census. On August 29, 2005, Moss Point was hit by the strong east side of Hurricane Katrina, and much of the city was flooded or destroyed.Wikipedia