Also, since I’m in full rant mode ;) Here;s another reason the strategic fence is a horrid mistake.
Indian Reservations.
I have the advantage of having lived near the Canadian border and the AZ/Mex border.
In upstate NY, the Coke from to Montreal from Florida did not enter in large part at Rouses Point. It went and probably still does through old logging/dirt roads through one reservation. A place where American BP was unable to patrol effectively. I know this to be true as I was once in my teen years, offered a job ‘running it” which I declined.
In AZ today, a major drug route also runs through a reservation where the ‘treaties’ do not allow for NG or much BP activity. This isn’t an indictment of the tribes, just a reality of our screwed up priorities.
National security trumps Indian treaties. A fence across a couple hundred miles of reservation negates the BS involved with constantly dealing with tribes that don’t want American authorities on tribal land. It closes down those main drug routes and again, saves all the work, money and manpower required to deal with patrolling and enforcing “around” the perimeter of the Rez...which in turn leads to even more BS dealing with accusations of profiling and other nice Democrat tricks they use to build their powerbase.
More detail on that particular subject.....
Today, we have a BP agent in prison and Holder threatening his family for cash because he did his job. Ramos/Campeon also come to mind...pawns in a Democrat political power play.
The OWS crowd is recruiting and joining with racist groups like LaRaza to use the ‘poor abused illegal” angle to further further the left’s power and influence.
Is there one Freeper willing to go on record saying that the Democrats do not use the border issue for political gain?
So then does it not stand to reason that we are further ahead on the road to solving the actual problem by minimizing their ability to use allegations of BP abuse, enviro etc issues to demagogue with?
Can you imagine the result of President Perry put a few thousand BP/Guard out there who actually did their job effictively? 24/7 media screaming NAZI!!! would be the start and the courts would be gridlocked with ACLU lawsuits.
Just another point from an earlier thread brought here for consideration. If anyone denies this scenario, lets discuss it.
Since the enforcement rests with the BP or other law enforcers (not with the fence), wouldn’t any enforcement activity be subject to lawsuits regardless of who’s plan it is?
Also, do we control the airspace over Indian reservations? If so, then the real-time aerial surveillance technologies should help stop drug trafficking.
Add to that the liberals’ favorite tactic of filing environmental lawsuits to keep things tied up in the courts. They like to prevent any real action on our part by requiring environmental impact studies, etc.