Bill guts border fence requirement

WND ^ | 12/17/07 | Jerome Corsi

[pissant]

Republican presidential hopeful Duncan Hunter is blasting a Democrat-sponsored bill that would eliminate the requirement passed by Congress to build a double-layered fence covering 854 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.

"By eliminating the double fence requirement, the Democratic Congress is going to make it easier for drug and human smugglers to cross our Southern land border," said Hunter. "This goes against the interests of any family that has been touched by illegal drugs or any American who has seen their job taken by an illegal alien."

The Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill would specifically eliminate the mandate of the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

As WND reported last week, an amendment submitted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and co-sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, for the Department of Homeland Security 2008 budget was aimed at gutting the already-approved Secure Fence Act, which was adopted with the promise hundreds of miles of physical fencing would help secure the U.S. border with Mexico.

The Hutchison amendment allows the secretary of homeland security to use discretion in deciding whether a fence was the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control along the border with Mexico.

[upsdriver]

This is exactly why we need Duncan Hunter as our president. With his strong stand on this issue, the mood of the country regarding illegal aliens and the total stupidity of the Democrats, Duncan Hunter would win the general election in a landslide.

[Travis McGee]

"Border Reality 101"

This is what most of our southern border looks like: there is no government-built fence at all. There is often just whatever is left over from some forgotten cattle fence, built privately to keep U.S. cattle from wandering freely into Mexico. For hundreds of miles there is not even a broken cattle fence, there is nothing at all.

For comparison, below the broken cattle fence photo is a sample of an inexpensive but highly effective double border fence system, with a plowed strip to reveal footprints. This type of system is very cheap and can be built with great speed.

Here is what some of San Diego County has: a wall made of rusty Viet Nam-era runway mats. The corrugations are even horizontal, (to make climbing easier?)

Here is what the border looks like where the runway mat wall exists. Mexico begins on the other side of the ineffective rusty wall, which actually helps the smugglers, by hiding their movements until the occasional USBP vehicle has driven out of sight.

This is how "the game" is played. Smugglers hide on the other side of the wall with their dope and/or their illegals, out of sight of the USBP. They wait for the highly visible white BP vehicle to drive over the distant hills. Lookouts with cell phones and walkie-talkies report on the current locations of the BP units. They know with certainty that "the coast is clear" for an hour or two, and the smugglers and illegals hop the fence and run into the scrub only 50 yards away. From there, they are out of sight, and they walk 1-2 miles to holding houses. Then they wait for nightfall, and are picked up and driven in vans to LA or San Diego.

Next, we see the Duncan Hunter 15' fence, which is already being built along a few "showplace" miles of San Diego, mainly near the ports of entry, where panderng politicians can conveniently show it off to gullible reporters. As you can see, the rusty runway wall is seen at the left side, Mexico begins on the other side. In areas with the 15 foot fence, dope smugglers and illegals will have to cross the open sand ("the government road" as it is called) before starting to try to get over the 15 foot fence.

This new fence is extremely tough, and resists cutting. Attacking the fence would have to be done right out in the open, in full view of cameras. This type of fence, on the U.S. side of the government road, will give the USBP a barrier to patrol, instead of forcing them to chase illegals around 100,000 square miles of wide-open frontier land, which is a fool's errand. Everywhere this modern multiple fence system has been built, crossings by illegals drop to almost nil.

This ain't rocket science, folks. We're not talking about something like the Hoover Dam project, (which we managed to build 70 years ago). The world's last superpower, which put a man on the moon 35 years ago, can build a couple thousand miles of simple and effective fencing.

This is how it's being built in San Diego county, along the last 14 miles out to the ocean. The total cost of the entire fence from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific would be about 5 billion dollars, or what we spend medicating, hospitalizing, educating, and incarcerating illegal aliens just about every month. In other words, the fence would pay for itself immediately.

Or, we can continue our current policy.

[Brad from Tennessee]

It’s time to go back to the 1994 strategy—Vote the bastards out!

[sonic109]

We all have to work all week long and can’t always stay on top of the issues as they return again and again . Those in the Senate do nothing so they have time to wait it out and present the same rejected bill over and over again . Eventually they will push it through , even if its piece by piece , slipping amnesty past us in the middle of the night .

[Man50D]

For hundreds of miles there is not even a broken cattle fence, there is nothing at all.

Kay Bailey Hutchison's version of the fence.

[Man50D]

We all have to work all week long and can’t always stay on top of the issues as they return again and again .

Agreed but the purpose of FR is to keep people aware and by pooling our resources we can stay on top of it as this thread proves. It's easy enough to send an email if calling is out of the question.

[sonic109]

Interesting , thanks.

[Diogenesis]

[RasterMaster]

BEFORE THE BORDER FENCE:

AFTER THE BORDER FENCE:

http://www.house.gov/hunter/border1.html

[ZULU]

The vipers are doing EXACTLY what we suspected they would.

AFTER the elections, they are ignoring the outpouring of rage and anger at these crooks for the amnesty bill. They are proceeding to try and implement what they proposed before the elections. This is but the first step, and El Gringo de Mexico, Jorge El Segundo, is right in there in their corner.

Massive demonstrations by Americans complete with burning of the Mexican Flag should be on the agenda when Calderone comes calling on his compadre in Washington in February.

[Diogenesis]

[ZULU]

Pandering to the big business interests after the election.

BOTH poltical parties have betrayed America. Neither one is much better thant the other and only the prospect of the radicals running on the Democrat Tickets keeps me from voting independent.

[ZULU]

Sam Adams, WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE REALLY NEED YOU????

[RasterMaster]

[Man50D]

[Shermy]

“Kay Bailey and Cornyn? WTF?”

The fence will work. If it did not, they would build it just to appease us.

The two want to continue depressing income for their benefactors, or it’s some kind of way to shift money to Boeing for the “virtual” fence.

[Man50D]

Sam Adams, WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE REALLY NEED YOU????

Yeah, I sure could use a frosty cold one right about now.

[RasterMaster]

[RasterMaster]

[Plains Drifter]

I’ll be on the phone in the morning.