Completing US-Mexico border wall would be daunting task

KSBW ^ | Jan 01, 2016

[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.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Exactly.

[taterjay]

That is a daunting task. I am happy no one would ever have an idea like going to the moon. Man, that would really, really be impossible.

[Iron Munro]

America has lost it’s spirit and confidence.

Our leaders no longer provide inspiration, motivation and direction - they provide excuses and inculcate defeatism by example.

All we need to complete the national transgender transition from a Can-Do world leader to a Nation of wimpish Barack Obama Nancy Boys is to elect an incompetent woman as resident.

Any job is too big to complete when you don’t want to do it.

Anyone can find reasons to not do a job.

This is the nation that put men on the moon and returned them home safely six times.

That was almost 50 years ago.

Now we have presidents and intellectuals telling us that building a simple barrier fence of concrete and steel is beyond our capability.

Maybe we couls sunbcontract the job to Israel.

They have a pretty good record of building fences that keep out the animalistic hordes.

[Mollypitcher1]

Amazing. The United States can put men on the moon and bring them home again, but can’t build a wall.
Combine the wall built by Israel and the forts in and around Verdun built by the French, and you would have a formidable barrier.

[artichokegrower]

You can’t build a border wall to stop climate change. You can’t build a border wall when it comes to carbon emissions or global temperatures or the oceans - Barack Obama December 4, 2015

Can’t build one to stop illegal immigration either it seems. So let’s give up on both fronts.

[tumblindice]

Completing US-Mexico border wall would be daunting task

Land of the free, home of the unsure. That’s the spirit!

[TornadoAlley3]

We put men on the moon. We will build that wall, build it tall.

[Pollster1]

Stones for Sovereignty

Concrete for Country

Steel for Safety

Trenches for Trespassers (or is that Moats for Moochers?)

Building a wall is cheap and easy. The trick is electing candidates with a sincere desire to protect America, even when corrupt crony capitalists give generous gifts - paying politicians to promote illegal immigrant invasions. We need a moat, a concertina wire fence, a concrete wall, and another concertina wire fence, with motion sensors between layers and severe penalties for those who even damage our wall.

Then we also need aggressive enforcement against illegals and their employers in this country. It's not enough to make it hard to get in. We need to make it hard for criminals who entered illegally to stay in, and we need to make it expensive when they are caught, so there is no incentive to come here illegally.

[Revel]

All we need is a clearly marked Mine Field.

[Balding_Eagle]

Wouldn’t a row of dead bodies suffice?

[tbw2]

Raytheon has built border walls hundreds of miles long for Saudi Arabia to contain Yemeni terrorists AND prevent Iraqi ones from crossing.
These are two and three layer fences, with guard towers and ditches so someone can’t drive a car through.

While an American defense contractor can build premium walls overseas, we somehow can’t find the expertise or will to do so along our border despite the flood of people who bring diseases, crime and financial drain on the nation.

[artichokegrower]

Brownsville Resident Frustrated over Increased Border Activity

One of Brownsville’s southmost property owners said he is fed up with all the drugs crossing on his land.

Rusty Monsees said he is seeing an increase in activity from the river. He is also getting more phone calls about the activity.

Monsees has become the liaison between authorities and his neighbors.

The amount of drugs that are coming through is phenomenal, he said.

http://www.krgv.com/story/30864198/brownsville-resident-frustrated-over-increased-border-activity

[TLI]

Simple.

Build a simple 2 story blockhouse with a three bay metal roof concrete slab carport every half mile.

Bottom floor is garage/shop, upper floor is bunks, shower, and kitchen facilities with heat and AC.

Roof is flat with walls containing shooting stations with built in benchrests.

Small tower from roof contains Day and night-vision video cameras coupled to ordinary computers that have motion detection software running 24-7.

Spacing them every half mile means each blockhouse has a midpoint to the next blockhouse of only 1/4 mile.

Have a “ready” 2 seat 4 wheeler for both left and right of the blockhouse.

Problem areas could have fencing between the blockhouses.

Low traffic areas would not need it.

Staff with BP, ICE, military and State police.

How much would a single blockhouse cost under a contract for 4,000 units?

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[Vic S]

Break up the project into 30 parts and have each 100 or so mile section contracted out to the best bidder. Give incentives for an early finish and penalties for late finish. I bet you can get the whole thing done in under six months.

[kaehurowing]

It was supposed to have been built 10 years ago.

[Cobra64]

IT’s a friggin wall. Not the Empire State Building. You drop preformed concrete planks in a ditch and tie ‘em together. Trump has already alluded to how he’d build it. Furthermore, the Mexicans are going to pay for it. Even if we did foot the bill, it’s a bargain when it eliminates illegals coming in and getting al the freebies from us.

[DesertRhino]

Manhattan Project,
TVA,
The Interstate Highway system,
Apollo project,
600 ship navy
Alaska Pipeline,
Lake Powell,
Golden Gate Bridge and Pacific coast highway,
Transcontinental Railroad,

Yeah, a wall with Mexico sounds nearly impossible./

[kaehurowing]

Been done in lots of other places.

“On the night of August 12-13, 1961, East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into West Berlin, and the number of checkpoints in which Westerners could cross the border was drastically reduced. The West, taken by surprise, threatened a trade embargo against East Germany as a retaliatory measure. The Soviets responded that such an embargo be answered with a new land blockade of West Berlin. When it became evident that the West was not going to take any major action to protest the closing, East German authorities became emboldened, closing off more and more checkpoints between East and West Berlin. On August 15, they began replacing barbed wire with concrete. The wall, East German authorities declared, would protect their citizens from the pernicious influence of decadent capitalist culture.

The first concrete pilings went up on the Bernauer Strasse and at the Potsdamer Platz. Sullen East German workers, a few in tears, constructed the first segments of the Berlin Wall as East German troops stood guarding them with machine guns. With the border closing permanently, escape attempts by East Germans intensified on August 15. Conrad Schumann, a 19-year-old East German soldier, provided the subject for a famous image when he was photographed leaping over the barbed-wire barrier to freedom.

During the rest of 1961, the grim and unsightly Berlin Wall continued to grow in size and scope, eventually consisting of a series of concrete walls up to 15 feet high. These walls were topped with barbed wire and guarded with watchtowers, machine gun emplacements, and mines. By the 1980s, this system of walls and electrified fences extended 28 miles through Berlin and 75 miles around West Berlin, separating it from the rest of East Germany. The East Germans also erected an extensive barrier along most of the 850-mile border between East and West Germany.

In the West, the Berlin Wall was regarded as a major symbol of communist oppression. About 5,000 East Germans managed to escape across the Berlin Wall to the West, but the frequency of successful escapes dwindled as the wall was increasingly fortified. Thousands of East Germans were captured during attempted crossings and 191 were killed.’

[vpintheak]

So?! Do it! We are America dang it! We can do it!

[GunPkrBkr]

The amount it would cost is a drop in the bucket compared to all the wasteful spending congress has done throughout all the years. gimme a friggin break. Americans can do anything. Nothing is impossible. It would pay for itself anyway after so many years.