Egypt builds the wall

by philg

“Egypt is building a new walled buffer zone more than 2 miles wide on Gaza border, satellite images show” (CNN):

Egypt is building a massive miles-wide buffer zone and wall along its border with southern Gaza, new satellite images show, as fears grow over Israel’s planned ground offensive in Rafah where more than half of Gaza’s population is sheltering.

The images, taken in the past five days by Maxar Technologies, show a significant section of Egyptian territory between a roadway and the Gaza border has been bulldozed.

If the buffer zone — which stretches from the end of the Gaza border to the Mediterranean Sea — is completed, it will completely engulf the Egyptian-Rafah border crossing complex.

At the actual border, multiple cranes can be seen laying sections of wall.

Additional satellite imagery reviewed by CNN shows that bulldozers arrived on site on February 3, and the initial excavation of the buffer zone began on February 6.

If Joe Biden wants to boost his/her/zir/their reelection chances, perhaps he/she/ze/they should hire the Egyptians to secure the U.S. border (though, actually, Mexicans could probably do a great job as well if we paid them instead of expecting them to work for free on our behalf after we created an attractive nuisance by offering four generations of taxpayer-funded housing, health care, food, smartphone, and broadband to anyone willing to cross from Mexico).

(Using a range of pronouns above because it is unclear that Joe Biden remembers his/her/zir/their gender ID.)

Same story in the New York Times:

Is it fair to say that there are more unauthorized crossings of the U.S. border every day (at least 10,000) than there are of the Egypt-Gaza border in an entire year?

10 thoughts on “Egypt builds the wall”

  1. Is it fair to say that there are more unauthorized crossings of the U.S. border every day (at least 10,000) than there are of the Egypt-Gaza border in an entire year? Yes!

  2. Surprised Greece has more debt to GDP than US. US’s mane reason for increasing immigration is paying off its debt. It’s definitely not to help the homeless & the blog commenters. You’d think Greece would kidnap immigrants.

    • From 2010: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/business/global/12pension.html

      It says that when you count the unfunded government pension liability, Greece had about 875 percent of its GDP as debt while the U.S. was at 500 percent (similar to France).

      2023, from CATO: https://www.cato.org/blog/medicare-social-security-are-responsible-95-percent-us-unfunded-obligations

      “Over the next 75 years, U.S. taxpayers face nearly $80 trillion in long‐​term unfunded obligations. What’s more, 95 percent of this unfunded obligation is driven by only two federal government programs: Medicare and Social Security.”

      Note that under an asylum-based immigration system, as both the US and EU operate, there is no reason to expect that an immigrant will work, pay taxes, and help cover these liabilities. A disabled 70-year-old who will never work has the same right to claim asylum as a healthy 22-year-old who is fluent in the local language and has a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

  4. Governor Newsom is doing his part to reduce illegal immigration in California. He is offering free health care to illegal immigrants. Not to the rest of us, mind you. Somebody has to pay for this.

  5. By the way, when did we start calling them “migrants” and no longer “immigrants”?

    Are they “immigrants” when the enter the country, and “migrants” when the move about the country after entry?

    Or does the media prefer the term “migrants’ because it sounds less offensive than “immigrants”?

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