Posted on 08/23/2007 3:58:09 AM PDT by Man50D
With only a small fraction of the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico complete, California congressman and Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter is warning President Bush the construction mandated by the Secure Fence Act is falling drastically behind schedule.
"Unless construction is promptly accelerated," Hunter wrote in a letter to Bush, "deadlines for the completion of fencing will not be met."
Hunter's letter was written Monday to be delivered to the White House during the Security and Prosperity Partnership third annual summit that concluded Tuesday in Montebello, Quebec.
His criticism that the Bush administration is making no significant progress constructing a fence takes added importance given Bush's refusal to deny that a hidden SPP agenda was in the works to advance North American economic and political integration with the goal of creating a European Union-style North American Union.
The Bush administration's unwillingness to build a border fence, even when mandated by a law Bush signed as recently as Oct. 26, 2006, questions the credibility of Bush's denial, especially when the border with Mexico remains wide open today, nearly six years since the Bush administration declared war on terrorism.
Hunter's letter points out the Secure Fence Act calls for completing 392 miles of fencing from Calexico, Calif., to Douglas, Ariz., by May 30, 2008.
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A friend of mine in the Army Corp of Engineers just spent a few weeks down on the Texas border recently. The fence is coming along down there, but there many areas that a fence can’t be placed. So it is a mix of a small link chain link fence, with electronic surveillance, and just electronic surveillance where they can’t build the fence. He’s not to optimistic about the fence since it is easy to cut through. So if the BP force is not beefed up to be able to respond quickly to the electronic sensors, then the fence is useless.
Hopefully as Secretary of Homeland Security Hunter can get it done.
Why?
Hunter will get my vote for president.
Either A) it would have to be built on the Mexican side(which is not going to happen) or B) it would have to be built way back off the Rio Grande to find suitable ground to build on. That last part runs into other problems like farm/ranch land and irrigation ditches being in the way.
As I remember the ASA were the Hippies of the U.S. Army. US51509754, MOS 111
Why? Because it might go through someone's living room? Because it might go up a steep embankment, or across a puddle? I call BS.
Maybe if the Army Corp of Engineers can't do this job the same way they couldn't do the job on the levys (but the private contractors could), they should be excused and real engineers brought in to build the, wait, fence? I asked for a wall. A concrete wall with razor wire at the top. And you tell me they are building a fence but can't everywhere so they are putting a small chain link fence in the difficult area. What kind of fence is being put up where they can build, a chain link fence that takes larger wire cutters to get through?
How is the legislation coming along---to deny welfare, food stamps, medical services, education, to illegals and children of illegals, and deny the children of illegals born here citizenship? That would be worth 100 miles of fence right there---the heavy wire kind! And they wouldn't even have to worry about stretching it across a puddle or up a hill either.
The bottom line: the government doesn't want to do anything about illegal invasion. They tinker around on this chain link fence to make it look like something is happening but the invasion goes on.
And our primary, NH, will be “First In The Nation”
So what you are saying is that there IS a fence and it IS coming along despite some challenges? Oh well who cares what the real situation is... it’s so much better to read about New World Order conspiracies and faux-news campaign ads in the World Nut Daily. ;-)
“a chain link fence that takes larger wire cutters to get through?”
That is what is being built. It is the small link that a person can’t climb, but wouldn’t stopped anybody from cutting through.
“Why? Because it might go through someone’s living room? Because it might go up a steep embankment, or across a puddle? I call BS.”
Have you been to the Rio Grande River? The terrain and geography varies in Texas. Some places is all just sand. you can’t stick a fence post in that and expect it to still be there a few months down. So it would have to be built back a ways which runs into eminent domain issues. Most eminent domain cases in Texas take 1-2 years to clear up per suit.
I am not defending the Government here, there are ways to get around these issues, just not with what was authorized to be built.
What my friend is saying is that it is coming along, but it sucks.
My choices are Hunter first, Mitt Romney second and Fred Thompson third...
In other words the government picked the cheapest material they could find and the most difficult places to build it?
Is that a correct assumption coming from what your friend told you?
Is your friend Duncan Hunter? ;-)
Cheap material for the terrain. I would image there are ways to work with the terrain to cover it all, I am no engineer. As far as the chain link goes, nothing like the Israeli fence that is double layered with a road built behind each layer and the second layer is higher than the first with guard post every so often.
LOL! no he is a regular Joe just making his way to retirement.
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