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San Diego Fence Provides Lessons in Border Control[Apprehensions down 95% ALERT]
NPR ^ | April 6, 2006 | Ted Robbins

Posted on 04/07/2006 4:49:59 AM PDT by conservativecorner

As Congress looks to revamp immigration policy, some lawmakers are pushing to extend fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico. Proposals range from beefing up existing fences in Arizona to constructing new fences that would span 700 miles. Those advocating expanded fencing already have a model they can look to: a fence the federal government built more than a decade ago along a 14-mile-stretch in San Diego, Calif., that borders Tijuana, Mexico.

Before the fence was built, all that separated that stretch of Mexico from California was a single strand of cable that demarcated the international border.

Back then, Border Patrol agent Jim Henry says he was overwhelmed by the stream of immigrants who crossed into the United States illegally just in that sector.

"It was an area that was out of control," Henry says. "There were over 100,000 aliens crossing through this area a year."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; fence; immigration; invasion
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To: CowboyJay
The people who support HR 4437 are the people who want the problem stopped.

No, they're not. They make money off of the problem--both from speechifying and soliciting campaign donations from those who want to solve the problem, and in campaign donations from the folks who are causing the problem in the first place.

If they wanted the problem stopped, they'd support a sea-to-shining-sea fence and enough bodies to patrol it. They aren't supporting that kind of fence--just a short fence to cover where people would notice it, and not nearly enough border patrol agents to patrol even a comprehensive fence, let alone one with 1,400 miles of holes in it.

Don't you and Dane have a group therapy session to attend tonight?

Don't you have a gay bathhouse to earn your living in tonight?

41 posted on 04/07/2006 9:48:04 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
"Don't you have a gay bathhouse to earn your living in tonight?"

You need help, but I don't need your patronage badly enough to follow you into that type of establishment. You're just going to have to conduct your little meeting on your own.

42 posted on 04/07/2006 9:54:02 PM PDT by CowboyJay (Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
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To: Teacher317

This new book sounds interesting:


The Blitzkrieg Legend - The 1940 Campaign In The West
Author: Karl-Heinz Frieser


43 posted on 04/10/2006 12:17:17 PM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

Just a little touchy, huh?


44 posted on 04/19/2006 12:02:12 PM PDT by libsheartharikari (New Orleans - proud to swim home)
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To: Travis McGee

Aren't you a leading skeptic of this fence?


45 posted on 04/19/2006 12:03:14 PM PDT by Clemenza (Amor de mi Vida, Donde Estas?)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

Oh, well we should just give up then and succumb to FTAA, thereby doing away with all borders and, hey, while we're at it let's toss out our Constitution and Bill of Rights as well.

Ok, my vote is NO. !!BUILD THE STINKING FENCE ALREADY!!


46 posted on 04/19/2006 12:12:20 PM PDT by libsheartharikari (give me a fence or give me death)
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To: sgtbono2002

I patrolled the DMZ in Korea for a year. If we can mine and patrol their border for the ROK, why can't we do the same for our own?


47 posted on 04/19/2006 3:28:28 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (they love you in Mexico until you pay in pesos.)
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To: Rakkasan1

I once wrote of ging around the Capitl beltway. Now areound this beltway they have a fence to keep out the noise from the neighborhoods. this fence is 30 feet high and solid concrete and on both side of a 60 mile beltway. If we canb afford to build a fence 120 mlles long for a hioghwat that is just to keep out noise , we can afford to build a 30 foot concrete wall to keep out terrorists and others who wish to enter our country illegally.

IMO the problem is not the cost or the environment damage its our political connections with mexico and the fact that our politicians eventually want to see open borders, with free passage.


48 posted on 04/19/2006 7:28:23 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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