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Take I wrote on increasing calls in Republican and bi-partisan spaces for a Military intervention into Mexico against the Cartels, and why this would inevitably lead to armed conflict within America itself, along with a possible death spiral of instability in the wider North American region.
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One question really jumped out. If you don't think Texas martial law and comparable insanity would prevent cartel operations...why would a border wall? If the idea is just to make it harder to move product, smugglers have already demonstrated plenty of creativity. Static obstacles just don't work alone.
Anyway, as a Texan, I thought this was a neat article.
My undestanding is that the wall was supposed to essentially be less of a concrete physical barrier to moving in and more of a gigantic "fuck you, you're not wanted here" signal to potential immigrants doing their implicit cost/benefit analysis for migration. Obviously, cartels would be operating on the basis of different cost/benefit analyses.
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