Posted on 02/07/2017 8:11:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Israeli company that built Israel’s border fence is making a play this week to construct U.S. President Donald Trump’s wall with Mexico.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S.-based unit of Magal Security Systems Ltd. presented at a January 31 conference on border security attended by officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The company, whose shares have risen almost 50% since Trump’s election, showcased a fiber-optic fencing system that it says is used in airports and seaports around the world. The company also built Israel’s border fence with Gaza and the West Bank.
“We have the right product and we have the experience in Israel that helps in showcasing our product,” Magal’s Chief Executive Officer Saar Koursh told Bloomberg.
Israel contends the fences keep Israel safe, while Palestinians say they are part of a system of collective punishment that limits freedom of movement.
Trump cited Israel an example of a nation that has stopped undocumented immigration in an interview with Fox News.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted about the fence’s effectiveness in a subsequent tweet.
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I read somewhere that there was a Mexican company that wanted to build it.
Let them do it, under supervision of course.
Since we gave them $38 billion in aid, will that cover it?
We gave $38 billion dollars to that company? Why was that?
Making Islamocrat heads explode.
I see no reason we only can have one company involved.
Split the border up in 100-mile sections. Have the top company work five of them. The next company four. The next three. The next two. That makes 1400 miles, accounted for.
Then split the rest up into 100 mile sections, and have the rest work on that wall as you see fit.
Put the top company on the most critical.
The second company on the next most critical.
That way you will rapidly get the entire border wall built, and you will reward the top bidders with the best contracts.
Just my opinion.
Sounds good. You wanted the best, you got the best. Applies to more Israelis than Gene Simmons.
The military construction units could do the small segments, with active duty, reserve and Guard units all pitching in. They build bridges, roads, hospitals and schools in Central America all the time.
Geez the israelis know how to build good wall systems.
everyone keeps griping about the price which some say will be approx $15 billion dollars- plus maintanance fees each year- but the reality is that once the 15-20 billion dollars is paid, maintaining will be moot compared to what we will save every single year- it is costing our country between $400 BILLION dollars and $600 BILLION dollars every year because of illegals-
some studies think it might even be higher- this of course takes everything into consideration such as housing them in prisons at $125 per day per inmate, not to mention the money they waste filing frivolous lawsuits etc- but the price of trials, the price victim’s families have to pay, the price victims have ot pay for things like hospitalization, therapy lawyers- money taken out of our economy and sent over the border etc etc etc-
Even if the wall cost us $400 billion- We would save that and more in just the first year if we also deported criminal illegals and clamped down on illegals like we should be doing- but at just $15 Billion? I’d say it’s a no brainer- build the wall- it’ll save hundreds of billions of dollars a year- and trillions in the long run
Less than one aircraft carrier, right?
Meanwhile, I can’t even watch Raymond reruns on TV Land without seeing ads for Lopez. “I’m all for building the wall . . . as long as it’s not heavy enough to collapse the tunnels we already got under there!” FOAD, kidney thief.
“The military construction units could do the small segments, with active duty, reserve and Guard units all pitching in”
Units that are stationed in Border States should have some role. It would be a great exercise for them for any possible future contingency along the border.
Also, it would be more convenient for them to rotate folks, with the shorter travel distance.
No reply, lol.
Alternatively, you could also have the wall built in a two-step, process.
The first step would be to deploy a wall, for the entire border. A serious wall, with full-time computer monitoring, this would probably shut off 99% of illegals crossing, immediately.
Then you have a later slower step, where you build a real strong border. That would be a real border. Which would stop everyone.
Do the bidding for each step, but build the wall first. Then have companies go back out, and finally build a real, impregnable real wall later.
Tall. Monitored, and basically insurmountable.
But get the basic wall built first, in less than one year. Then improve it with a much more significant wall, later.
Just my thoughts.
You would of course have doors, wherever you need to have access, such as international freeways. But even those would have doors which can shut.
Make the border completely impregnable. Every inch.
Start however, by building a basic wall, over the entire border.
My thoughts.
Getting a wall of any sort in there is the most important thing. It shows commitment. It can be fortified later.
An Israeli company might get a design or technology contract, maybe even a Prime Contract - but the great bulk of the sub-contracting will have to be American workers and materials.
Just as a practical and political consideration.
I don’t understand why they are not out unstringing rolls of concertina wire to serve as phase I.
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