Posted on 05/18/2006 5:59:07 AM PDT by kellynla
THE Senate's action yesterday in approv ing 500 miles of ve hicle barriers and 370 miles of triple fencing to the Mexican-U.S. border will have a huge effect on the immigration debate now raging.
By a vote of 83 to 16, the senators amended the immigration bill now before them to include a fencing provision akin to that already passed by the House.
Walls work. The Israeli border fence has sharply curtailed suicide/homicide bombings in Israel. The proposed U.S. border fence should stop most of the illegal immigration and clear the way for a generous guest worker and path-to-citizenship program - and also reduce the carnage. (Mexican government statistics say 4,000 people have died in the past decade while seeking to cross the border to freedom and economic opportunity.)
The media reaction to the Bush speech emphasized his so-called "militarization" of the border by temporarily sending in National Guard units to patrol there while the government recruits and trains new Border Guards. But a shift from the 9,000 agents now on the border to 12,000 or even to 18,000 isn't the way to stem the flow of illegals.
Do the math. A 2,000-mile border manned 24/7 (four or five shifts each week) by 18,000 agents reduces to fewer than 4,000 on duty at any given time. Allowing for supervisors and clerical assignments, that works out to only slightly more than one agent for each three-quarters of a mile.
That's no way to seal anything. But a fence will provide the physical and psychological barrier to slow illegal immigration dramatically.
And it will drain some of the passion from the debate. As Americans see the wall going up, mile by mile, it will give us the assurance that something is being done to control our border and protect our sovereignty.
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Good fences make good neighbors - Robert Frost.
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They will just build more tunnels.
So, uhm, why did the Senate suddenly decide on an ineffective (too short) politcally-only-correct answer?
Friggin' jerks.
They WANT their WashPo and NYTimes publicity.
Maybe Robert Frost said it in his Mending Wall poem but he was really mocking it.
I thinkk in this instance he was right. We need a fence.
Didn't he say something about motion detectors, too? I would think that a lot of blasting and digging would certainly set off some of those. It works at the Groom Lake area, and keeps out the moonbats.
"Even Dick Morris gets it".
Blind pigs find acorns, too. And Dick Morris may not be blind but he definitely is a pig.
I thought last night on H&C Morris said he supports the fence in HR4437
So THIS week Morris ISN'T a toe-sucking protitute-paying moron who's never right about anything, because, well, he agrees with some of us, that's why.
OK, lemme just update the scorecard here.
So when in a month he writes that Bush sees the light and is making progress, or that on some other issue he's a good leader, he goes back to being a toe-sucking etc., right? OK, got it...
Oh, while I'm updating the scorecard, is Zogby The Perfect Pollster THIS week, or is that next week, and THIS week he's still that know-nothing Ay-rab whose brother is an apologist for the islamofascists? Since I've revising--uh, updating the FR Prevailing Wisdom Scorecard?
Good neighbors make good neighbors - My Grandmother.
I had a neighbor make a fence for me once. Wotta guy.
technology is there to sense them when they are building them. When the fence is up, money that would be going towards endlessly patroling these areas can be spent elsewhere.
Dick Morris is a liberal democrat who had a fallout with the Clintons.
He can't be trusted on this issue.
Tunnels are harder to build and carry fewer people. We're not going to stop all border crossing; just make it harder to do.
Of course Dick Morris can be trusted. But no more than all the other columnists who write about the subject.
Likewise, if there are fences on part of the border, it'll funnel the coyotes through other sections of the border that might be easier to watch. And (I could be wrong on this) I'm assuming that the places without the walls will be the harsher terrain that provide a more arduous journey for the illegal crossers.
Add to this that I'm expecting that they won't be building on private land (that's just the way the government is), so the owners of private land that aren't getting walls are free to build their own, particularly with foundation and donations or other such help.
I'm still wondering about Dick Durbin's comments. Does he expect a chain link fence that you can dig under? Maybe he's expecting some nice suburban hedges. "Watch out, amigos!! Those hedges have thorns! We should turn back!"
TS
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