Replies

Even though I would prefer a big electrified fence, it's got to drive the President (or any president) nuts with all of this bureaucratic nonsense going on.

Bush was quoted as saying, "Slowly, but surely, technology is being employed up and down the border, and that's a key part of our strategy."

I wonder if he knew just how slow going things would be? It's time to kick some butt.

it's got to drive the President (or any president) nuts

I doubt that very much. If Bush was serious about dealing with the border it would have been delt with long ago.

Bush doesn't want the borders closed or policed. One need only look at his inaction and lunatic amnesty ideas.

Anyway you slice it, we have the technology to secure the border. A good double fence with sensors to detect tampering would probably stop 90% of them. With the addition of electricity (AVISO!) probably damn near all of them.

Not sure how wide an angle the drones can see, but if it was only one mile, you'd need 540 of them to record every mile once a minute (at 7 million a pop, that's under 4 billion bucks) . I bet they have cameras on them that are much better then that. If they can record a four or five mile stretch (I bet they can) then the price drops to around a billion for that kind of surveillance.

The drones might be useful. People are going to cross at places which are convenient and safe. The drones could expose those places. Of course, you still have to have the manpower to follow up on the information (arrest illegals in other words, and deport them).

Which brings up another thing I've been thinking about. Why in the hell are we talking about building more prisons to detain illegals? Why can't we just say you're here illegally, so back you go? How long does it really take to figure out that someone is not a U.S. Citizen and is here illegally?

I'm frustrated because this isn't about technology, or what is the right thing to do. This is about a lack of will on the part of our politicians to secure the border. This is about politicians, including our President, who are not against depressing wages and raising taxes (well, how else can we fund the freebies for illegals?) to support an invasion which is being helped along by a country called Mexico who routinely steal from their people and encourage those they can't steal from (because they have nothing to steal) to migrate to America.

We spend so much money helping the world. What the hell is the world doing for us? Financing terrorists, sending us their people they don't want? Sticking their hand out at every turn and event?

How long can we keep this up? IMO, not much longer at all. I give us less then 30 years before we are bankrupt for our foolishness.