Border Walls: Are They Effective?

Recorded on 27 Jan 2019: Topics include Border Walls: Are They Effective? and Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild!!

Banter: The Government Reopens … Temporarily

* Trump Agrees to Reopen Government for 3 Weeks in Surprise Retreat From Wall, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Nicholas Fandos, and Peter Baker, NYT, 25 Jan 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/politics/trump-shutdown-deal.html

* Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has identified $7 billion for wall, Priscilla Alvarez and Tammy Kupperman, CNN, 24 Jan 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/politics/trump-border-wall-emergency-draft/index.html

* Trump’s golf course employed undocumented workers — and then fired them amid showdown over border wall, Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold, WaPo, 26 Jan 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trumps-demand-for-a-border-wall-shut-down-the-government-at-the-same-time-his-company-was-firing-undocumented-workers/2019/01/26/8cf75d66-20c5-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html

 

Segment 1: Border Walls: Are They Effective?

* Borders and Walls: Do Barriers Deter Unauthorized Migration?, Reece Jones, Migration Policy Institute (MPI), 05Oct2016

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/borders-and-walls-do-barriers-deter-unauthorized-migration

* Why the Wall Won’t Work, David Bier, The Cato Institute, May2017

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-wall-wont-work

* Trump wall – all you need to know about US border in seven charts , Lucy Rodgers and Dominic Bailey, BBC News, 21 Jan 2019

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46824649

* Five Problems Trump’s Wall Won’t Solve, According to Professor Emeritus Michael Dear, UC Berkeley, 08 Mar 2017

https://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/news/five-problems-trumps-wall-wont-solve-according-to-professor-emeritus-michae

 

Segment 2: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild!!

* Jeremy Kappell: WHEC chief meteorologist fired after apparent on-air Martin Luther King slur live on Rochester, NY news, issues video apology, CBS News, 08 Jan 2019

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeremy-kappell-whec-chief-meteorologist-fired-apparent-on-air-mlk-slur-rochester-new-york/

* Could fired meteorologist Jeremy Kappell sue WHEC and win?, Mary Chao, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 08 Jan 2019

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/01/08/jeremy-kappell-racist-slur-martin-luther-king-jr-sue-whec-lawsuit/2513739002/

* US teen denies mocking Native American, BBC, 21 Jan 2019

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46943364