Posted on 03/03/2008 9:06:34 AM PST by BGHater
At 300 a day, that would be around 110K crossing over near his farm in a year. Wow. Thats just at that spot. Wow.
He needs to invest in some Mexican fighting bulls or African cape buffaloes and pasture them along the fence area.
This “fences don’t work” stuff is pure BS.
The Berlin Wall all but stopped border crossing for decades.
We don;t need to give up on fences, we just need to built bigger fences — as I recall the Hunter fence was about right.
They need some nasty non-lethal technologies to dissuade them.
No argument there. I would suggest dropping the fence idea and try walls.
At some point we are gonna take this serious and treat it like a actual international border and a national security problem.
Hook up a few thousand volts to the steel.
“Despite fences, immigrants still broach U.S. border”
“Immigrants” don’t broach a nation’s borders. They follow a previously established legal process toward citizenship. These people are criminals.
Maybe if I removed generous chunks of my frontal lobe with an ice cream scooper, I’d be stupid enough to be a journalist for Reuters.
We got that new “heat ray” gun. Just use those.
Heavy fines for every landlord that rents to them.
Absolutely no HUD, Food Stamps or Health care.
Any child born in the US of illegal parents is also illegal.
If these rules are followed they will go back to where they belong and stop coming in illegally.
In lieberal newspeak almost down to zero = not 100% perfect and secure. Therefore, it is a failure and we must abandon it. Yesterday.
On the other hand, abject failures of lieberal solutions such as the war on poverty only mean we are not throwing enough money at it. Therefore, we need to increase funding.
Do they make ice cream scoopers that big?
I'd love to have the beer concession there.
And a fence in Israel stopped suicide bombers.
Yes, but you omit the portions of the Berlin Wall that our fence doesn’t have:
1. Border Guards preauthorized and able to use deadly force 24/7,
2. Attack dogs between the fences,
3. Electrified fences (in selected places), and last but not least,
4. Land mines.
It is really just a matter of attitude toward the illegal crossers. Compared to the East Germans, we are just a bunch of softies. We prefer they escape as opposed to being seriously injured in the attempt. The East Germans preferred the illegal crossers dead as opposed to successfully escaping.
If fences didn’t work they wouldn’t have them around nuclear facilities, the White House and compounds of the Hollywood elite.
No, they are not 100% effective on the border, especially as stand alone structures without active Border Patrol backup, but they will be 99.99% effective as part of an integrated security system.
And that is precisely why democrat and republican hacks like Kennedy, McCain, Bush, Pelosi and Joe Baca are opposed to a real fence.
A real fence of steel, concrete, and wire costs a few percent of a “virtual fence” equipped with high tech gadgets and gee-gaws and is infinitely more effective.
A 15’ chain link fence isn’t even adequate for a schoolyard let alone a border under siege by millions of rabid illegals, drug dealers and evil-doers.
“Thanks Jorge. This will be YOUR legacy.....”
Bush will go down as the president who did it his way....All wrong!
Nah, you don’t need to do that, just stick an icepick up off in the corner and stir around.
Must be that fancy new virtual fence they were talking about, you know the one like the Kings Clothes. Unfortunately it only keeps virtual immigrants out.
Are you suggesting that we should act as the East Germans did, or are you simply pointing out that we are not controlling the border as the East Germans did?
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