I'll bet they are giggling in the Washington Post today.

In her blog, Ann Althouse links to an article in the Washington Post entitled, "Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump’s border wall." Nick Miroff wrote the article. Here are the first two paragraphs.

SAN DIEGO — Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Trump’s border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads to pass through, according to U.S. agents and officials with knowledge of the damage.

The breaches have been made using a popular cordless household tool known as a reciprocating saw that retails at hardware stores for as little as $100. When fitted with specialized blades, the saws can slice through one of the barrier’s steel-and-concrete bollards in a matter of minutes, according to the agents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the barrier-defeating techniques.

Read more here.

The President seems to have some expertise on this subject matter!

True!

Walls work!

Seth Barron writes in City Journal,

...But what evidence is there that walls—for millennia the most basic unit of construction and defense—are ineffective? A wall, or fence, runs along much of the border near population centers like San Diego and El Paso, and these barriers appear to work, to the extent that a partial wall can be said to work. A 440-mile wall separates Israel from the West Bank; it has dramatically reduced terrorism. Saudi Arabia has a wall on its border with Yemen and has begun construction of a wall on its Iraq border, too. Hungary, Russia, Lithuania, and Slovenia have built border walls. Belfast and Derry have “peace lines” (walls) separating Catholic from Protestant neighborhoods. The 1,800-mile, impermeable India-Pakistan border is visible at night from space because 150,000 floodlights light it. The United States maintains 25,000 soldiers in South Korea to preserve the integrity of the fence dividing the Korean peninsula.

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Priorities

“In 2015 #Democrats overwhelmingly voted for President Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal, which gave that nation -the world’s most foremost sponsor of terrorism - $150 billion.” Yet they refuse to protect our southern border at a price of just $5 billion... https://t.co/DwyAoQNcF7

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 2, 2019