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Rep. Duncan Hunter: If Trump really wants a ‘beautiful’ wall, here's what he's gotta get right
Fox News.com ^ | January 9, 2017 | DUNCAN HUNTER

Posted on 01/10/2017 6:07:37 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Donald Trump’s proclamation that he would build a “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border was a major selling point in his campaign ... It was this commitment that helped propel Trump to the forefront of a crowded field of primary opponents ... and it no less helped distinguish him significantly from Hillary Clinton ... nationwide.

It will soon be show-time for Trump, ... millions of Americans are eager to see him follow through on this promise—...

There is some angst, that Trump and .. advisers might be taking a step back from ... a wall ... instead considering a virtual barrier, comprised of sensors and radars, .... That would be a serious mistake, ... it would signal a broken promise, ... virtual fencing--... has been tried before and failed. -snip-

The Trump administration would be foolish to revive the virtual border fence in place of reliable physical impediments and not learn from the lessons of the past. -snip-

The Bush administration ... Secure Fence Act was ... political opportunity seized...desperate response to public outcry and seen as an enticement to push through another amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. -snip-

Once the prospect of amnesty unraveled, so did the Bush administration’s interest in fulfilling the mandates of the Secure Fence Act....the Bush administration ... began sidestepping the law, and incorporated a combination of less than effective impediments—including vehicle-barriers and single-layer pedestrian-fencing— to convey the mileage target was met. -snip-

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff running point, the Bush administration utilized every stall tactic available to discourage physical fence construction. What ensued was a billion-dollar boondoggle. -snip-

The Trump administration would be foolish to revive the virtual border fence in place of reliable physical impediments and not learn from the lessons of the past.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; aliens; border; buildthewall; defendborder; duncanhunter; fence; mexico; sandiego; securefenceact; sovereingty; trumpagenda; trumptransition; virtualwall; wall
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Republican Duncan Hunter represents California's 52nd CD in the House. Hunter is a Marine Corp combat veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He is the first Marine Corp combat veteran of these wars to serve in Congress.

Where border infrastructure is not conceivable due to topographic constraints, technology and personnel be utilized. Virtual fencing instead of physical fencing is a really bad move, tried and failed, they need to build a real wall.

From the article, "Trump must avoid getting hoodwinked by interests and personnel that would like to resurrect the construction of a virtual fence instead of building what is conversationally called a wall but is more realistically an extension of the San Diego border fence." "It’s a promise that Trump must uphold."

1 posted on 01/10/2017 6:07:38 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Landmines, snipers. ‘Nuff said.


2 posted on 01/10/2017 6:09:10 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I don’t care how he does it, just stop illegal entry to the USA!


3 posted on 01/10/2017 6:09:53 AM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Step back from a promise to America at your own risk. We wait.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 6:10:03 AM PST by Rapscallion (The opposite of charity is justice. I favor justice every time.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The only “virtual fence” I’d be amenable to would be a minefield.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 6:10:59 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Rapscallion
Trump must avoid getting hoodwinked by interests and personne...l

...that embezzle and pay graft, such as unions in most cities!

6 posted on 01/10/2017 6:14:12 AM PST by gr8eman (Keep Winning!)
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To: jch10

Put some of the military on the border. Consider it an invasion and repel it by all means necessary. Mines, M-60s, and pull up a few P 47s out of mothballs for strafing (worked in Ger in WW2).


7 posted on 01/10/2017 6:14:41 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: RedStateRocker

Hell. Turn the length of our southern border into a combination rifle, sniper and artillery training and practice range. Problem solved.


8 posted on 01/10/2017 6:17:17 AM PST by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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They didn’t build a wall, because they supported amnesty.


9 posted on 01/10/2017 6:17:56 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

A physical barrier, then a wide landmine field, a 2nd physical barrier, then a road, then a 3rd physical barrier. Small bases for military personnel to perform regular, but random patrols. Anyone not US military inside any of the physical barriers is shoot to kill, don’t bother asking questions either before or after. Sensors for tunnels, coverage for air incursions. Use the Korean border as an example or even the East/West German border.


10 posted on 01/10/2017 6:18:54 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Quit clutching your pearls ladies. I don’t see any evidence that Trump is stepping back from anything. Remember everyone’s hysteria about Romney? In the end Mitt was reduced to groveling not once but twice, and got nothing but humiliation, while Trump looked magnanimous. Let the man be sworn in before you start issuing dire warnings.


11 posted on 01/10/2017 6:20:07 AM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

And if DJT needs any tips on how to do it, he can contact the folks building the very large brick wall around the Obamas’ new house at this very moment to keep out the riff-raff, thieves, and other undesirables.


12 posted on 01/10/2017 6:22:26 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Built in the mid-1990’s, the San Diego border fence consists of two layers of fencing, separated by a high-speed border patrol road and equipped with all the bells and whistles to give the Border Patrol every advantage to respond to illegal crossings.

Trump has said it will be a wall, not a fence. Twenty to thirty feet high, concrete, and I assume that there will be an access road along it as well. I would hope that Congressman Duncan will be happy with that.

13 posted on 01/10/2017 6:22:36 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: RedStateRocker

Landmines can be dug up. Snipers posted elsewhere. Walls work 7/24/365. Walls are apolitical.


14 posted on 01/10/2017 6:23:49 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Look at the wall Israel uses. Look at the wall used by Spain to keep Africans out at Melilla and at Ceuta. Build what works, then patrol it, defend it, and lock up anyone damaging it, climbing it, or tunneling under it.

Start with triple-strand concertina wire, two of those barriers, with a road in between. Then “encourage” Mexico to build something more permanent on the Mexican side of that barrier, and we build something more permanent before criminals even reach our barbed-wire barriers, and patrol them all. Deport illegals, stop more illegals from coming, and when we catch them, hold them until whatever hearings their liberal advocates demand - do not set any illegals free in our territory.


15 posted on 01/10/2017 6:23:51 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Some walls are made of brick and mortar, some are made of words and deeds.


16 posted on 01/10/2017 6:24:34 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Mouton

Did you notice the photographs of the response at the Ft. Lauderdale airport mass-shooting?

Military outfitted men and vehicles poured in within minutes, by the hundreds. They have fleets of shiny new expensive SUV’s, trucks, and sedans and all the finest equipment. Between NSA, DHS, ATF and whomever else responded, it was massive.

We already have the resources and the means to do this.


17 posted on 01/10/2017 6:27:28 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Virtual fences are virtually useless.

Real fences can’t be turned off.


18 posted on 01/10/2017 6:28:45 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: rigelkentaurus

That’s remarkably close to my idea for how to deal with Detroit. They lost some much population that the city needs to physically downsize. I recommend that they make several large multi-square mile no go zones. These areas are clearly marked and fenced with a single strand of barbed wire. The land will then be leased to police, military, fire departments and anyone else who needs an urban training ground. Fire can burn at will. Police and Military can have all the shoot houses they want.

If you get caught in the no-go zone, be prepared to die. You may be caught in crossfire, you may get shot, you may survive. You will not be treated or helped in any fashion.

After a year or two, most of the homes will be destroyed and partially demolished, making it easier for the city to finish the job using money from the land leases.

The land is to be made fallow. All infrastructure, including sewers and basement are to be removed, rendering the land ready for farming and/or future development.


19 posted on 01/10/2017 6:28:54 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats haven't been this mad since we freed their slaves)
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To: RedStateRocker

Remove all those water stations.
Replace with scorpions and rattlesnake dens.


20 posted on 01/10/2017 6:31:14 AM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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