Posted on 09/29/2011 9:02:09 AM PDT by thouworm
Yeah, this fits. It’s what I envisioned. Incidents like the Falcon Lake murder of the jet skiing husband, piracy on Falcon Lake, the rancher who was murdered on his ATV, Mexican military incursions over Laredo neighborhoods, etc.
Perry isn’t against a border fence. He just has issues with the details and consequences of its implementation.
- We Texans ripped him over property rights on the Trans-Texas Corridor, so he’s particularly sensitive to land grabs.
- In areas where there is already fencing, the illegals tear it up to get over/through or they build tunnels. It doesn’t stop them or even significantly slow them.
- The Rio Grande is our southern border and a shared water source, so erecting a fence would significantly limit our access to the river and potentially cede land to Mexico by default.
- A fence on every inch of the border would be monumentally expensive to build and maintain. The repairs would be constant and become a source of bickering and legal battles between the states and federal government over financing and project control.
A border fence is not the total solution that Bachmann and others with no border experience portray it as. It’s but one small piece of the puzzle.
We Texans elected Perry because the alternative was an Acorn/Seiu backed democrat.
Building a fence would be like shutting the barn door after all the horses have left.
This is a federal border issue but the obama regime is more than willing to let the situation get out of control.
Check out post 9 and 11. A fence won’t even slow them down. We need tanks and troops on the border.
Won’t happen with this gang in dc.
Doesn’t affect them.
Let them eat tortillas.
Ping!
The Pentagon released a report a couple years ago that the government of Mexico was in danger of “rapid and sudden collapse” but I guess we shouldn’t worry about that since Hillary talked to Calderon about it and said it wasn’t true.
Thank you for the ping SwinneySwitch.
The BATFE armed Mexico with about 2000 firearms to make sure the border is safe!
The border is safe. It’s just people who make it dangerous.
Fences in strategic areas might help create choke points which would help channel the bulk of illegal crossers. It would be one element of a comprehensive defense. electronic counter measures, predator drones, and quick reaction forces would be other elements. A more aggressive posture from the federal government would be essential as well but that is unlikely from this gang of chimps who believe the border is safer than ever.
zer0 calls it a coo-pay.
;-)
Sorry for the tangent, but this is a frighteningly serious issue that needs a little levity.
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