[The Sabbaticus]

Turns out Donald Trump is a certified time-travelling God-Emperor, a master of the spatiotemporal continuum itself. He snapped his fingers and altered the course of history in the blink of an eye. 'The wall' just miraculously emerged out of thin air. It's already here! What the bloody hell?!

*shock, horror*

*cues left-liberal hysterical screeching*

This Is What the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall Actually Looks Like
Our photographer visits the most talked-about stretch of land in U.S. politics.

Story and Photographs by James Whitlow Delano

PUBLISHED March 4, 2016

The candidates for president of the United States, particularly on the Republican side, have hotly debated how to handle the roughly 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) border between the United States and Mexico.

Donald Trump has famously and repeatedly promised to seal the border with a wall if he's elected. He and others have promised to send people who illegally crossed the border—a number that appears to have leveled off—back to Mexico. For these people, the border wall isn't an abstraction. Many parts of the border are already covered in fences. In other spots, the wall is not made of bricks, but out of scanners, drones, and guards.

Photographer James Whitlow Delano has visited the border several times in the past decades as these walls have gone up. These are his photos and stories:

In the photo above, the border wall separates Jacumba, California, from Jacume, Mexico, in the high desert. Even after the first border barricade was built here in the mid-1990s to disrupt human and drug traffickers, residents of Jacume could cross freely into Jacumba to buy groceries or to work, and children would be brought across to go to school or to the health clinic. Since September 11, 2001, security has turned a ten-minute walk into a two-hour drive through the official border crossing in Tecate, segregating these communities from each other. After ten years, Jacume, a village of 600, was called "a black hole," where even Mexican federal agents had been held hostage for attempting to extort money from smugglers.

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If you zoom in and look real close. No, no, really close. You can actually see the patrolling white supremacist Muslim hating Nazis.

[Tewodros III]

@The Sabbaticus That's it? That's the great wall of dump? [center-img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Borderbeachtj.jpg[/center-img]
LOL as long mexico don't pay for it. Anyway, this is great all of non-whites and prob east europe will go to the East, thank you regressive west devils for revealing your true nature, the nature you always was and always will be; One that will change unless through well violence to put it mildly.

[MistyTiger]

That wall is fugly.

If they could have an INS station or several near the border (they could make it look like a lighthouse) to help with legalizing the illegals, they could keep track of the foot traffic by the border. Do they charge toll to travellers? That might be a way to ensure that they get compensated even if they cannot receive tax payments from the illegals.

[Potemkin]

That wall is fugly.

It seems to be a fundamental truth of the cosmos that commies build better walls than capitalists.

[Beren]

Because they meant to be walls of barracks or prisons to keep people inside.

However, the Israelis can build great walls too.

If Trump really means to erect a wall, he should invite the Chinese to build it.

[Igor Antunov]

That's a fence, that's not a wall.

I think Trump's WALL is going to surprise many snowflakes in the coming months. Cement and steel baby.

[Beren]

That's a fence, that's not a wall.

Exactly!

What Westerners call a wall, it's limes actually.

[MistyTiger]

That's a fence, that's not a wall.

I think Trump's WALL is going to surprise many snowflakes in the coming months. Cement and steel baby.

Waste of money and time! An electric forcefield around the border would be cooler actually or maybe that only exists in Scifi shows. It could be something like those doggy invisible fences.

A brick wall would be sufficient unless someone drives a tank or other heavy machinery through it.

If Trump really means to erect a wall, he should invite the Chinese to build it.

Maybe if he asks nicely, they will accept the invite. I do not think they are very pleased with him right now considering that he wants to tax their imports to the US.

It seems to be a fundamental truth of the cosmos that commies build better walls than capitalists.

Capitalists just want something cheap to get the job done and Commies are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done no matter the cost. I am not sure which mindset scares me more.

[Zionist Nationalist]

Since when defending your own borders became something that is forbidden to do and considered racist?

if you want to allow all Mexicans to freely migrate to the US just annex all of mexico

but why stop there maybe annex all of Latin america and Africa because they would love to live in the US too

every nation should defend its sovereignty unlike the suicidal liberal and "Progressive" Europeans who are an example of what every nation should not do

[Beren]

Maybe if he asks nicely, they will accept the invite.

They will accept, if they get paid enough, but nobody will get paid enough to build a real wall. Even Hitler's Atlantic Wall couldn't do the magic, although it was cement and steel on which they spent a lot. The Great Wall was a failure as well, as we know it.

[Atlantis]

Even Hitler's Atlantic Wall couldn't do the magic, although it was cement and steel on which they spent a lot. The Great Wall was a failure as well, as we know it.

Why was the Great Wall a failure? They would hardly have kept on building for 2,000 years if it hadn't worked, would they?

The point is, however, the Chinese wall, the Limes, Hadrian's Wall, Medieval city walls, etc., were all built to keep conquering armies out. Nobody ever went to the idiocy of building a wall to keep civilians out. Humanity has reached a new all-time low.

[One Degree]

The wall should be placed on wheels and slowly pushed South as we slowly add one state after another. The Mexican economy will be gradually improved without US citizens feeling they are being culturally challenged.
This will only work with strong states rights. This will allow a more natural assimilation rather than the forced multiculturalism.

[Tewodros III]

The wall should be placed on wheels and slowly pushed South as we slowly add one state after another. The Mexican economy will be gradually improved without US citizens feeling they are being culturally challenged.
This will only work with strong states rights. This will allow a more natural assimilation rather than the forced multiculturalism.

Honestly, why stop there, give these southerners what they want:succeed from the union, let's see how long they last if not invaded by Mexico.

[The Sabbaticus]

That's a fence, that's not a wall.

I think Trump's WALL is going to surprise many snowflakes in the coming months. Cement and steel baby.

They literally dammed a valley in order to stop a human deluge of non-Americans from pouring in.



In the link there are descriptions.

[Albert]

From what Ive read it would be an Israeli company hired to do the job. As they have experience building such walls.

So it will probably end up looking something like this.

[Rugoz]

Here's what Rick Perry said:

“Here’s how you secure the border—it’s not about building a wall,” said Perry, slamming the “simplicity of saying we’ll just build a wall and make Mexico pay for it,” a clear dig at current frontrunner Donald Trump.

“I get the political rhetoric,” continued Perry. “But as a Governor of the State of Texas, I didn’t get to play with political rhetoric, I had to deal with reality.”

A plan based in “reality,” according to Perry, involves putting “the personnel in the right places on that border.” Along the 1,933 miles of Texas’s border with Mexico, this would include “strategic fencing in the metropolitan areas,” and—something that was currently missing—”aviation assets,” including “drones, fixed wing, rotor craft, with downward looking technology that allows us to analyze what’s going on, on that border 24-7, day or night, any type of weather condition,” coupled with “quick response teams” who could move quickly to areas where there were reports of suspicious activity.

"If you build a 30-foot wall from El Paso to Brownsville, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good"

He seems extremely intelligent compared to Trump.

[Lexington]

*cues left-liberal hysterical screeching*

*giggles*

A Dutch guy is complaining about a wall that will be built halfway around the world because conservatives are *afraid* of brown people from entering even though illegal immigration is net negative and the "left-liberals" are the hysterical ones?

[One Degree]

A Dutch guy is complaining about a wall that will be built halfway around the world because conservatives are *afraid* of brown people from entering even though illegal immigration is net negative and the "left-liberals" are the hysterical ones?

Liberal lies based upon pretending 'asylum seekers' are not illegal immigrants.

[Pants-of-dog]

I think it is hilarious that The Sabbaticus just realised now that there is already a wall in many places on the border.

[Lexington]

Liberal lies based upon pretending 'asylum seekers' are not illegal immigrants.

What do asylum seekers have to do with the border wall?