Comment on Norway is mulling building a fence on its border with Russia, following Finland's example
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago“How does making things harder help at all”. Gee, I wonder.
You’re still relying on guards actually responding and getting out to meet them,
Well obviously, but now you also have a barrier to slow them down so those guards have more time to get there and make sure less people manage to get through. Again, the fence isn’t supposed to work alone but to compliment the other ways of stopping them/slowing them. You’re talking as if they’ve scrapped the border guards in favour of this instead of using this to make their work easier.
sonori@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Again fences are like cheap locks, they are creating a social barrier to tell people not to pass, not a way of significantly reducing the speed at which someone who wants to will take in doing so.
How many seconds do you think it takes a truck to drive through one, or prop a ladder up against one? What else, like anything else, could be built or funded with the cost of building these expensive signs?
If your going to spend massive amounts of money on securing a border, at least spend it on the things that actually have an impact, like more patrols and guard posts, not on expensive signposting.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Norwegian, Finnish and Polish border forces seem to disagree with your estimate on border fences and seem to think as them as valuable tools. Those are the ones who have had to deal with this migrant issue.
sonori@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Is it the people actually studying effectiveness of preventing security threats from crossing borders, or the politicians and leaders who want to be seen as doing something visible to deal with the ‘migrant issue’ dispite the pure absurdity of suggesting that people who crossed continents will see a fence and just decide to stay illegally in Russia of all places?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago
In Finland it was the border guards who were calling for this. Same for Poland. And it’s easy to see why since it can play an important part in controlling but also as a deterrent and help in knowing about illegal border crossing.