Posted on 04/20/2006 6:12:54 AM PDT by 300magnum
TUCSON, Ariz. - Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will.
Simcox said Wednesday that he's sending an ultimatum to the president, through the media, of course "You can't get through to the president any other way" to deploy military reserves and the National Guard to the Arizona border by May 25.
Or, Simcox said, by the Memorial Day weekend Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers and supporters will break ground to start erecting fencing privately.
"We have had landowners approach," Simcox said in an interview. "We've been working on this idea for a while. We're going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise."
Simcox said a half-dozen landowners along the Arizona-Mexico border have said they will allow fencing to be placed on their borderlands, and others in California, Texas and New Mexico have agreed to do so as well.
"Certainly, as with everything else, we're only able to cover a small portion of the border," Simcox said. "The state and federal government have bought up most of the land around the border. I suspect that's why we'll never get control of the border."
But he said the plan is to put up secure fencing that truly will be an effective deterrent, and to show how easily it can be accomplished.
Simcox gave this description of the envisioned barrier-and-fencing complex:
Start with a 6-foot deep trench so a vehicle can't crash through; behind it, roll of concertina (coiled, razor-edged barbed wire), in front of a 15-foot high heavy-gauge steel mesh fence angled outward at the top.
Behind the fence will be a 60- to 70-foot wide unpaved but graded dirt road, along with inexpensive, mounted video cameras that can be monitored from home computers. On the other side of the road will be a second, 15-foot fence, with more concertina wire on its outside.
"It's a very simple, effective design based on feedback we've had from Border Patrol and the military," Simcox said. "It's a fence that can be built on the cheap, effective and secure."
Simcox said supporters will try to build the fencing with volunteer labor. Surveyors and contractors have offered to help with the design and survey work, he said, and some have said they will provide heavy equipment.
Simcox said those involved in the planning hope to keep costs to between $125 and $150 a foot.
Access to land literally on the border is an issue because so much is state-leased trust property or federally owned, he said.
"You may have to deal with a situation where private property owners erect their own fences and may be faced with the president sending the National Guard to prevent them from protecting their private property," Simcox said.
He said the Minuteman plan is "to keep turning up the heat" until President Bush has to respond somehow.
"We welcome all except racists and bigots."
You say that those in favor of seeing US immigration law enforced are "racists and bigots"? Golly, I didn't know that.
Since I like a winner--See: George S. Patton: I believe he shot a couple `banditos' that got on his bad side--I always look to see which side is `name-calling', then I join the other side.
I welcome all legal immigrants; unlike `Meheeco', we are a nation of laws, not men.
"The state and federal government have bought up most of the land around the border. I suspect that's why we'll never get control of the border."
That right there is called a damning indictment.""
SOOOO put the wall inside whatever strip of land has been "federalized.".
If you are soo patriotic and in love with the ideals of our founding fathers why do you feel you need to impress those in other countries above all. I think you are the embarrassment!
What precisely makes any American racist and bigoted for wanting a secure border to prevent hordes of illegal aliens from invading this nation? Would you be so adamant if the wall were separating us from Canada? China? Russia? Any other country other than Mexico, or is it just because this involves Mexico?
Are you in favor of globalism? Trans-nationalism? Or are you in favor of America's national sovereignty? I'm just wanting to understand your beliefs regarding this country.
And BTW, Playing the racist/bigot card so cavalierly is so DU.
Did you mean 1.584 Billion??? Much smaller sum. I imagine that the border states spend this amount of money each and every year on services for illegals.
Your head is so deep in the sand I'm surprised you haven't suffocated already.
"The racists and bigots..."
Yep, once your argument no longer holds up, toss out the race card. I gotta admit, it took you a while, though.
And mumps outbreaks are all over the country.
If the Minutemen do it, it will cost $150 per foot just to cover the beer tab.""
Maybe, but even at $300/foot, allowing for the beer tab, it will be worth it.
It is costing me more than $300/annually just for the extra increase in my "uninsured motorist" auto insurance coverage. I would gladly trade that for a fence.
This is one temporary solution...signs all across the border...might make them think twice before crossing over.""
They cannot read ...
"Your comparison of the Illegal Aliens to "Foreign Invaders" is ridiculous and disgusting."
Your smokin' crack. they are invaders, plain and simple. They thumb their noses at the laws of this land. Everyone here realizes the reason they come, but those reasons DO NOT excuse their illegal crossing. No one here here wants to stop LEGAL immigration, we want ILLEGAL immigration stoped. Your excuses are ridiculous!
Raytheon Completes Successful Border Control Effort ~ (an operational demonstration SW Texas)
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During the six-week mission, Athena and CBP successfully detected, intercepted and deterred transnational threats, drugs, and alien smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican border over a large joint operations area including 160 miles of coastline, 120 miles of land border, and nine ports of entry.
Where do you rationalize that from?
No, trillion. 1.58X10E9
Did you hear about the Plague outbreak in LA earlier in the week?
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No....What plague
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