It won't go away.
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King says he wants candidates running for president to have clear and aggressive plans for dealing with immigration.
Of course, it will have to be a little bit higher tech - smugglers would have no problem cutting down portions of such a fence.
The best answer is a fence of this description with some kind of electronic warning system enabling border enforcement officers to rapidly respond to a breach.
You could cut the price if you hire illegals to build it.
Wire fences are used for animals....because they don't know how to use wire cutters.
Let the states build their own fences and if ANYBODY tries to tear them down, shoot them.
The states have the responsibility to their citizens BEFORE they owe any allegiance to a central federal system.
All they would do is cut a hole in the bottom of the fence. Or dig beneath it.
What we need is to send people back once they get here.
WAKE UP MR KING!
My proposal is a double-fence, privately funded and patrolled by packbots, or else Minutemen on four-wheelers. It would be awesome if landowners along the border could be persuaded to sell a 12' easement, without invoking imminent domain at all. Just think!
Even if an effective fence cost $50 billion or more, it's a small price to stop the invasion of our country and small potatos compared to the billions in pork regularly squandered in D.C.
The fence is a good idea, but if we made it tougher for illegals who got here, then there would be less incentive to come over the border in the first place. Illegals should be denied welfare, drivers licenses, schooling for their kids etc. and if caught should not be given a free bus ride home, but rather jail time or at least some kind of sentence in a labor camp.
If the Israelis can, we can.
And if the above WALL is too 'offense', how about one like this..... we go 'old school', like the Joilet Prison
Naturally, no windows or doors on the outside
Going past that place as a kid on Sunday car rides scared the be-jeezus out of me. 'prolly' kept me from a life of crime :-)
I wish he could be my congressman.
What we are seeing from these politicians are wild ideas that appeal to desperate Americans wanting to save their country. However, this doesn't answer anything as to what is happening in our country right now. It's too late for a fence, this should have been done ten years ago. We need drastic laws passed and enforced, but I don't believe we have the politicians with the guts to clean up this country.
Sarcasm aside, THIS is an excellent idea!!!!!!!!!
Under the Army reorganization plan, the 1st Armored Division will be home stationed at Ft Bliss outside of El Paso. This will provide a great opportunity to practice border security operations for the Iraq mission.
Build a wall/earth berm/whatever, and then patrol it with combined elements of troopies and border patrol. Arrest or kill as appropriate.
Razor wire will not work because the fences that have it now are just cut through at ground level.
The fence has to have sensors to detect such breaches.
I bet the fence can be made for less.
Excellent idea !!!!
Ya know,
The Great Wall of China is starting to make sense ;)
Build a canal, similar to the Panama Canal, so wide is to make it difficult to traverse unnoticed. We could stick it to the Chinese at the same time by creating an even shorter route from the Atlantic to Pacific.
Hard to tunnel under something this deep. Stock it with Piranha just for fun. Even the liberals would like it because we could charge a toll for the evil big corporate ships passing through.
a poem by Robert Frost entitled "Mending Wall"
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come on them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them mae or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I'd build a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says it again, "Good fences make good neighbors."