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Completing US-Mexico border wall would be daunting task
KSBW ^ | Jan 01, 2016

Posted on 01/01/2016 5:44:28 PM PST by artichokegrower

Close to the southern tip of Texas a border wall suddenly ends. Its final post sits in a dry cornfield half a mile from the nearest bend in the Rio Grande river, the actual border with Mexico.

It would be easy to walk around it. Tires left by the border patrol rest nearby. Agents drag them behind trucks to smooth the cracked earth and check for footprints.

Unlike other famous barriers in history such as the Berlin Wall or the Great Wall of China, the U.S. version is not much of a wall. What stands in Texas is fragmented series of fencing, composed of enormous steel bars embedded in concrete close together. The rust-colored thick bars that must reach a height of 18 feet loom over the landscape, forming teeth-like slats that split farmland, slice through backyards, and sever parks and nature preserves.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; mexico; trump; wall
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Amazing. The United State can alter the climate of the entire planet for good or bad but can not build a simple wall.
1 posted on 01/01/2016 5:44:29 PM PST by artichokegrower
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wasn’t the check already delivered?


2 posted on 01/01/2016 5:45:54 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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Any task is daunting if you refuse to start on it, and do not fix the will to complete it.


3 posted on 01/01/2016 5:45:59 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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I wouldn't be cheap.It couldn't be done overnight.But “daunting”? Gimme a bleepin’ break!
4 posted on 01/01/2016 5:47:45 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: artichokegrower

Just tell the ‘Rats that it will be “stimulus”


5 posted on 01/01/2016 5:48:05 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Didn’t we go to the moon in 1969?


6 posted on 01/01/2016 5:49:31 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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It's much too hard. There's no way it can be done. It would cost too much. The terrain is too difficult. It would take too long.


7 posted on 01/01/2016 5:51:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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Build the wall a mile into Mexican Territory.


8 posted on 01/01/2016 5:51:52 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktoHussein's favorite Caliph.)
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I am willing to be all of the unemployed O&G workers would be more than happy to get employed and build that wall.

I bet even the Unions would make a play at insuring the wall was built with Union labor.

9 posted on 01/01/2016 5:52:28 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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Who cares.... Mexico is going to pay for it ..../s


10 posted on 01/01/2016 5:52:46 PM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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It can be and should be done. Illegal aliens cause us an enormous amount of harm. There are ISIS members, rapists, pedophiles, killer, drug cartels. A particularly dangerous fraction are the black tar heroin dealers. I post about them because of the extensive harm they do to youngsters.

These dealers are all illegal aliens from Mexico. They are recruiting new addicts. They can only be stopped by deportation and protection of the border. An odd thing I red about them is that they are under orders to sell only to whites.

11 posted on 01/01/2016 5:52:47 PM PST by apocalypto
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How about the Hoover Dam. A classic example of America’s ingenuity. Remember it was built with sliders and mules.


12 posted on 01/01/2016 5:52:59 PM PST by Kozy
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You don’t really need the wall. Just give the military the responsibility of guarding the southern border. They can use it as part of their training.


13 posted on 01/01/2016 5:53:44 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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India can build a 4000km fence on it's border with Bangladesh but the US is not able to build one 75% that length?
14 posted on 01/01/2016 5:54:15 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (It's not a "tragedy" it's an atrocity.)
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I give you: North and South. We built it. It works. Korea
15 posted on 01/01/2016 5:54:57 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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Build two chain link fences 1/8 of a mile apart the length of the border.

Put mines and automated turrets int he area between.

Put lots of warning signs on the fence facing the mexico side.

there is a cheap wall.


16 posted on 01/01/2016 5:56:29 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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Trump ought to pay for a proposal


17 posted on 01/01/2016 5:57:19 PM PST by uncbob
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To: Straight Vermonter

I would volunteer a week of my time for free to assist in building the wall, I’m sure many others would too! Like habitat for humanity except it would be the wall for sovereignty!


18 posted on 01/01/2016 5:58:15 PM PST by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever! Trump is the only hope.)
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Completing US-Mexico border wall would be daunting task

Might as well just give up, then.

19 posted on 01/01/2016 6:02:20 PM PST by bkopto
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It would require technology only available in the future!! /lol

It would hurt our cheap labor destruction of America /DNC, GOPe, CLE


20 posted on 01/01/2016 6:02:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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