A Border Moat?

    The city of Yuma, Arizona has gone medieval. Today they announced plans to build a moat along their southern border with Mexico. The moat, which according to a Reuters report would measure 10 feet deep by 60 feet wide, would be this community's answer to the scores of illegal immigrants and drugs trafficked across its border.  "The moats that I've seen circled the castle and allowed you to protect yourself, and that's kind of what we're looking at here," Ogden said.   
   Fourteenth century security measures aside, the moat might have some environmental benefits. It would be built on the dry Colorado River bed that stretches for 23 miles along the U.S./Mexico border. "You are restoring habitat in a secure environment and creating a place to relax," Charles Flynn, the executive director of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Corporation, told Reuters.
    Relax? Yeah, until the drug runners and illegal immigrants learn about catapults. Or swimming. The truth is, even the environmental benefits are suspect.The water could be another major drain on water in the American West. As veteran Imax director Greg MacGillivray, anthropologist-explorer Wade Davis, and Waterkeeper Alliance chairman Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Outside ("Wake Them With a Splash" March) in preview of their Imax 3-D film Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk, the once vibrant Colorado is now endangered by thirsty crops and sprawling development.
--Jason Kerkmans
 

Comments

[JanetP]

You go Yuma! Great idea. If every community begins to explore ideas to stem the influx of illegals, we will eventually end this invasion. We just have to put forth the good old American Spirit that has made this country so great.

Since people from all over the world are going to such extremes to get to America, it appears reasonable that other governments would analyze why their citizens want to come here and set about changing their own countries to be more like America.