Border fences and walls can significantly curtail illegal immigration. This was the conclusion of a report published by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) which surveyed the effectiveness of border barriers erected by the state of Israel.
Illustrating the effectiveness of those barriers, the report noted that approximately 17,000 illegal migrants crossed Israel’s Egyptian border in 2011. Following the construction of walls and fences on that frontier, the number dropped to 43.
Dale L. Wilcox, IRLI’s executive director, observed that “America doesn’t lack the resources to achieve operational control of our southern border, we lack the political will. We discovered in Israel a country faced with a true existential crisis with border security, and they took action to address it.”
Walls and fences protect 700 miles of the 1,954-mile border from California to Texas. Two acts of Congress have authorized barriers for the entire border, but illegal immigration lobbies have prevented their construction.
Read more at irli.org