Is this congressman lying through his teeth to ignorant sheeples and hyping up the illegal alien border crisis just for votes, or is he telling the truth?
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Congressman King has his own ideas on how to solve the border issue, "I suggest this.Build a fence- it's cheap, you can build it 10 foot high with barb wire on top for 680 million dollars.
We spend six billion a year just incarcerating criminal aliens against those who come in and commit crimes against Americans.
This would make the best return."
Oh, how I wish I could vote for King.
I live in Iowa. King is for real. He wrote Iowa's "English Only" legislation and has been hammering on illegal immigration since he was in the State House.
How about a new fresh water shipping canal from Texas to California stocked with pirana.
Since everyone is throwing around ball park figures for construction of a fence and/or a wall to secure our borders, let's not forget the Border Patrol. The BP needs serious beefing up and the feds needs to start that process NOW. If you open employment hiring to experienced law enforcement officials and start them out at say $50K/year with benefits, you would get many folks applying who could get the job done. Double the amount of BP agents from the current level of 10K to 20K and you'd spend $500-million/year. Increase to 30K and it would cost $1-billion. If you went to 100K BP agents, a ten fold increase, that would cost the American taxpayer $5-billion. When you consider that the recent highway bill the President signed into law contained some $30-billion in pork barrel projects, increasing the size of the BP ten fold and building a wall on our borders is really a drop in the political bucket.