While We Were Distracted

The headlines continue to be dominated by Donald Trump's gyrations and bloviating over his border wall idea. Somehow in the frenzy, no one much noticed this curious event: the largest-ever mass tunnelling under the wall occurred last week, with nearly 400 migrants digging under the wall and coming up the other side all in one group (details here).

As anyone with a retaining wall around their yard knows, when interlopers can't go over, they go under. This has happened in the Middle East. This has happened with the existing border wall between the United States and Mexico.

Drug cartels have dug elaborate tunnels under the portion where the wall is the strongest near San Diego. Some of those tunnels were close to two miles long when discovered. And some of them were operating for years before they were found by border control officials.

If Trump's beloved wall is ever built -- which would really be an extension of the already existing wall -- that structure, too, will be breached by tunnels. It is inevitable.