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To: WOSG
Ah, but if you seal the Mexican border, then wouldn't the Canadian border become a problem?

Or is the issue not about national security, but about MEXICANS?

How much will this fence cost?
314 posted on 01/08/2004 11:49:25 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
" but if you seal the Mexican border, then wouldn't the Canadian border become a problem?

Or is the issue not about national security, but about MEXICANS? "

We dont have 8 million Canadians crossing that border looking for work and handouts in this country. If we did, yes we'd have to build up there.


"How much will this fence cost?"

I would guess about $200 million, or about 1/5th the annual cost of the extra medicare spending at border hospitals due to border-crossers come to emergency rooms. I suspect that given the $70 billion / year cost in welfare to immigrants, this fence would save tens of billions in net govt expenditures over time.
321 posted on 01/08/2004 11:56:01 AM PST by WOSG (Freedom, Baby! Yeah!)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife; WOSG
Ah, but if you seal the Mexican border, then wouldn't the Canadian border become a problem? >>>>>>

We have 'un-manned' planes that could be used all much of our borders. A civilian group is already using this technology.


Or is the issue not about national security, but about MEXICANS? >>>>>>>

We could stop the 'revolving door', that occupies much of our BP agents time. FIRST time your caught sneaking in, identify & ban for 5 yrs. any type legal entry. As it is, most are set free, then keep trying until they make.
349 posted on 01/08/2004 12:38:54 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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