better hearing has never been this easy. try lively risk-free for 100 days. visit listenlively.com we need help and we need it now. so today we re issuing a clear message. the time for aid to new york is now. and we need a realistic decompression strategy at the border that will slow the outflow of asylum seekers. pete: decompression strategy, whatever that is. i don t know, i ve been thinking about it for 24 straight hours, and i still can t figure it out. the mayor of new york pleading for help as his sanctuary city gets just a glimpse of the border crisis. will: so could a realistic decompression strategy be a border small many other countries think so. let s go off the wall to break down how many countries are protecting their borders with a wall.
muslim, effectively, from africa and the middle east came into europe. hungary said, hey, a wall will protect us, and it did. will: as did the u.k. this has taken place on the french side, but this is a u.k.-funded and inspired project because what s happening in france with mass migration is people were running through the tunnel, the train tunnel that connects france and the u.k., often times to their death, by the way. and these massive migrant camps in france were essentially funneling people into the tunnel. pete: yeah. the migrant camp on the french side was known as the jungle, so they put up a 13-foot concrete wall to prevent people from desperately running into a tunnel where they ll likely die. that s how desperate they are. will: there sal a wall or a fence pete: this one s really newsworthy. will: in finland. pete: for reindeer.
t not up common in the world today to uncommon to see countries fortifying their border. almost always in response to illegal immigration with a wall. let s start in spain. spain if actually built a bull that 2005. for the last two decades, they maintained a wall that geographically is on the african continent. spain if has several cities on the moroccan side of the mediterranean sea, and in order to protect migration into spain, therefore, they built a wall, pete, protecting those two cities. pete: that s exactly right. it s african migrants effectively that were coming illegally. much of the fence looks like this, other parts look like 20-foot concrete walls with barbed wire on top, 106 cameras. do walls work? of course walls are effective, but if you re not overwatching them, surveilling them, they become significantly less effective. they ve got cameras. will: this next one is fascinating for a whole host of
that s what they re counting on. rachel: it ll be like del rio where if there s a racial charge, then the media will swarm in. pete: like the big whipping. rachel: exactly. but as long as it s just about brown kids coming across the border with no adults and somehow our government, you know, facilitating this, hay don t care. will: a little bit later in the show, coming up in about 20 minutes, pete and i will go off the wall. we ll talk borders across the globe, a world of walls. various scenarios, different countries that have erected walls. pete: most of them are in the maim of security. rachel: the northing pole has a wall, pete? pete: you ll have to watch. [laughter] santa is not messing around. will: now turning to some headlines. kanye west, of course, has been in the news. this from very early morning, late last night, ye west threatening to go to war the
reasons including, of course, as it s always pointed out, the border between the united states and mexico is 1900 miles. so the feasibility of building a long, gigantic wall is often called into question. check out what saudi arabia has done, they built a 600-mile-long wall on their border with iraq to protect saudi arabia from islamic militants. pete: from isis, yes. it had a ditch on it to protect against vehicles, triple-layeredded steel, 40 watch towers with radar to detect vehicles and helicopters. will: 600 miles long. hungary, pete, has been a leader with a populist leader who s talked about, in his estimation, the perils of mass migration. pete: he made it clear, you re not coming into our country illegally. razor wire, then he upgraded to a high-tech fence. they always took their border seriously, but a lot of these walls have to do with the migrant crisis europe faced become in 2015, 2016, floods of