Yup. But we could just ignore it, after all, Obama gets to pick and choose ;) Kidding!
Personally I’m all for the fence with all the high tech goodies like ground penetrating sonar for tunnel detection. When you look at the cost compared to what Obama spends on terrorist support, it’s miniscule..
And such a fence (a REAL one, not some 4 foot chain link yard fence) is a 99.9% effective method to stop the flow, the drugs and the cross border violence (until the Zetas start lobbing mortars.) But as you said, it all goes back to Washington and as I said, their ‘laws of men.
We have to elect people who will stop catering to the special interests. The EPA/BLM are one big problem on our side with their wilderness area/spotted snarfblat BS stopping construction and driving costs into orbit.
I would suggest (after eliminating all alphabets but the FBI/CIA) that our next President (Palin/Perry/whoever) make the obvious to us statement that border issues are a matter of national security, place the Border Patrol under the Dept. of Defense and THAT skirts Posse Comatatus legally and legitimately. BP would get no further ‘power’ but the full ability to do their job without interference from the special interest mob.
There are so many obstacles.
In my time in Az I saw the Tohono Odham Indian nation reservation become a conduit from Puerto Penasco to Tucson.
Legally nothing could be done. and it remains this way till this moment.
The Tohono Odhamn Nation is a sovereign nation under US laws dating back to the 1840s.
They say BP cant come in to patrol it. They’ll take care of the matter.
Then they take graft from the coyotes and drug runners for safe passage.
They have a freaking corridor and we cant touch it.
You’d think we could sit on the other end of the corridor and intercept them but you’ve no idea ho big this place is.
Down here in Texas Perry has put in a pretty neat system of infrared sensors on towers along the Rio Grande.
They detect and call the authorities. I take it they have it tweeked to know the difference between a deer and a Mexican. Any how, it has to be cheaper that a soldier every 100 yards along a 1250 mi border in 112 degree heat
But why do you think that Perry’s heart is in the right place? He seems like a sell out to any globalist party who will offer him some cash. The guy is just not for real.