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« on: February 17, 2011, 06:23:36 PM » |
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They are probably fudging the numbers - unlikely to be that high. As it is, their definition of "in control", probably, is something like "we have a general idea of what's going on" and "airtight" must be "crossers have chosen to abandon the area because it is easier to cross elsewhere".
To properly secure the border you'd need to go the Sovet way. You can't really make it truly airtight unless all residents of San Diego and other border towns are required to wear and ID that's regularly checked and as long as you don't need a permit to come within a few miles of the border itself. Perhasp, a 10-mile exclusion zone (it was broader, in most places in the USSR, but ok) , where you need a permition from Washington to visit (with roaming patrols checking for permits throughout the zone), or smthg like that might work - not to eliminate all crossings, but a big chunk of those.
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