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Minutemen to Bush: Build Fence or We Will
Associated Press ^ | ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: borderfence; bordersecurity; bushamnesty; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; invasionusa; minutemen; openborders
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To: LexBaird
Get er done......I am all for it...I would love to see the politician make them take it down...he/she would be a done...

yesterday in Denver the DUMB students walked out...I call them dumb because only 50% finish..and that 50% can't read or write....lots of Mexican flags.....mostly illegals...all border baby's..lets get the war started and get it over with...I for one will not let Illegals take over this country....it is an invasion....
41 posted on 04/20/2006 7:08:41 AM PDT by Youngman442002
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To: Wallace T.
Your comparison of the Illegal Aliens to "Foreign Invaders" is ridiculous and disgusting. They just want a better life for themselves and their families. That is exactly the same type of people who have created the America that we know today.

Your attempt to use fear tactics to promote your agenda is pathetic.

42 posted on 04/20/2006 7:09:01 AM PDT by LPM1888 (What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? - Lazarus Long)
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To: LPM1888

Why don't they just build the Berlin Wall while they're at it?



um....because they are trying to keep people OUT not IN?


43 posted on 04/20/2006 7:09:25 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (Procrastinators of the world UNITE!!!.....Tomorrow.)
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To: american spirit
Perhaps you'd feel a little differently if it was your property being trampled on, your house broken in to, equipment stolen, piles of dirty diapers and discarded plastic containers and clothes, etc. What would be your solution......standing at the border handing out maps and travel $?

Come on man, really! Why do these ranchers need all that land anyway. I mean I don't have that much property why should they get it? So they can act like a bunch of Nazis and oppress a bunch of poor migrants yearning for a better life? Maybe if they put trash cans on their property the migrants would deposit them in the can./sarc

44 posted on 04/20/2006 7:11:08 AM PDT by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
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To: GAB-1955
More than 260 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989. About three times that number were killed attempting to flee westward from elsewhere in East Germany

Actually 260 people died trying to cross the Berlin wall and that is the Official estimate, the number was probably higher.

BTW, do have a picture of communist leader Erich Honneker haning in your home or office? Since you seem to admire so much the communist building of the wall.

45 posted on 04/20/2006 7:12:22 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: LPM1888
"That is exactly the same type of people who have created the America that we know today."

No, the people who created the America that we know today immigrated LEGALLY.

What part of ILLEGAL seems to escape your comprehension.

Title 8 - Section 1025 states that anyone who fails to pass through an inspection when entering the country is guilty of a misdemeanor. After being deported and again entering without inspection, the charge is elevated to a felony. The law is on the books, Nimrod.

46 posted on 04/20/2006 7:13:58 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Send a Brick to build a wall
http://www.send-a-brick.com/brick.htm ^

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1617030/posts


47 posted on 04/20/2006 7:14:04 AM PDT by Rakkasan1 (they love you in Mexico until you pay in pesos.)
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To: LPM1888

Why don't they just build the Berlin Wall while they're at it?

The so called "Minute Men" have become an embarrassment to America and a disgrace to the name they have stolen.
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Foolish words. You might want to break open a history book or 2.

The BERLIN WALL was to keep their people IN...not out. HUGE difference.

The Minute Men are the example of the Constitution of these United States of America.


48 posted on 04/20/2006 7:14:11 AM PDT by MadeInAmerica (- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Unannounced Visit)
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To: Redleg Duke

No, just welcoming good people to America.


49 posted on 04/20/2006 7:14:44 AM PDT by LPM1888 (What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? - Lazarus Long)
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To: LPM1888

" The so called "Minute Men" have become an embarrassment to America and a disgrace to the name they have stolen."

Not for most Americans.........time for you to head back to the DU barn.


50 posted on 04/20/2006 7:14:54 AM PDT by newcthem (Thought I was an American.......now I find I'm just a racist.)
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To: MadeInAmerica
The Minute Men are the example of the Constitution of these United States of America

And the exaxt quote in the Constitution where it says Americans should build a wall?

Whew you sound like the liberals with this "living Constitution" stuff.

51 posted on 04/20/2006 7:16:14 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: LPM1888

They just want a better life for themselves and their families



So do I, does this mean I get to break into the big house on the hill with a pool and 4 acres of land, and I get the "right" to live there for the rest of my life? If anyone that lives there already has a problem, does that make them bigots or just p.o.'ed homeowners?

I just want a better life!


52 posted on 04/20/2006 7:16:58 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (Procrastinators of the world UNITE!!!.....Tomorrow.)
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To: trubluolyguy
Why don't they just build the Berlin Wall while they're at it? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- um....because they are trying to keep people OUT not IN?

It would be just as ugly no matter which side it was seen.

53 posted on 04/20/2006 7:17:30 AM PDT by LPM1888 (What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? - Lazarus Long)
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To: Dane

Is that Jamie Lee Curtis slapping the mortar on?


54 posted on 04/20/2006 7:19:09 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: LPM1888
The only embarrassment the Minute men and women have to face is that they have to takeover the job our Gov't won't do...

God Bless these Patriots.

55 posted on 04/20/2006 7:19:15 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (NO, you can't!)
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To: JZelle

Looks a little more like Leonardo DiCaprio


56 posted on 04/20/2006 7:19:50 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: LPM1888
There is 3 billion people that would LOVE to come to America...but that WOULD ruin it for all of us...

all Countries have Borders.....what does Mexico do on their southern border....they shoot to kill...


I am for legal immigration...not an invasion...
57 posted on 04/20/2006 7:20:40 AM PDT by Youngman442002
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To: LPM1888

It would be just as ugly no matter which side it was seen.




You know what's ugly? My home town 2,000 miles from Mexico now resembles a back alley of Mexico City. English is quickly being supplanted by Spanish. If I wanted to live in a disgusting hellhole like Mexico I'd friggin' move there.


58 posted on 04/20/2006 7:21:43 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (Procrastinators of the world UNITE!!!.....Tomorrow.)
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To: 300magnum
Great!

Now they will face the legal hurdles put up by the enviro NAZIS and the Fed can put more effort into litigating the cases already filed.

59 posted on 04/20/2006 7:21:48 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: LPM1888
No, just welcoming good people to America.

By good people, I would assume you mean "law abiding". Illegally entering the country is antithetical to the entire idea of "good people".

60 posted on 04/20/2006 7:23:20 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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