Trump’s “wall” has been proven to be a failure before it is built. This antiquated idea can be breached, regardless of how it would be constructed, and existing walls have already failed when men and women tunneled under them.

The University of Arizona has tested a relatively inexpensive solution which would be extremely successful and not an eyesore. Testing began 10 years ago in the Sonoran Desert. A mix of animals, people, and vehicles gathered in the middle of the desert to travel a 100-mile path. Under the sand was fiber-optic cable.

Sensors were able to differentiate between people, animals, and vehicles. Not only the difference but the details. The difference between 200-pound man and a group of people; whether it was a dog or prancing horses; and if it was just a passing car.

The cable is placed in the loose, sandy soil; it does not need to be buried, and repairs are simple and inexpensive.

These days, nearly a full decade after Momayez’s experiment, the federal government remains fixated on building a border wall that critics have derided as a “medieval” solution to border security.

“At the time, there was a lot of interest from the federal government,” Moe Momayez, an associate professor of mining and geological engineering, told INSIDER. “But like anything else, it just dies off.”

If we continue to allow Trump’s moronic and antiquated idea to remain a topic of conversation, we are accepting the fact that with a mentally incompetent man in the White House our entire nation has become less intelligent.

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