Posted on 05/28/2006 12:23:31 PM PDT by SandRat
Minuteman Ronnie Mac Richardson from Kingwood, Texas, muscles a post driver with his work partner as they and about 40 volunteers erect a fencing system in the windy desert in Palominas on Saturday. The group plans to install 750-foot fence on property owned by the Ladd family.Boder PING
Border PING
Doing the border protection that Americans (in Congress) won't do ...
By this poster's calculation, the Minutemen are personally building an effective fence along 1% of the border without any government support or financing.
If a private group can pull something that monumental off just on sheer determination, the federal government can certainly complete the other 99% without so much a blinking.
Call it matching funds.
BUILD THE FENCE. After it's 100% complete, then and only then discuss guest workers.
"The Minuteman leader singled out two members of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors who he said had been particularly obstructive to his group’s efforts in the area. “I am speaking specifically of Pat Call and (Paul) Newman, who I think are working seditiously for the government of Mexico,” he said."
Well aren't they just the most patriotic of citizens. No wonder Simcox said in Sunday's Az. Rep. that Americans are afraid of what their government is doing to them...
"Unimpressed by President George W. Bush’s pledge"
That's quite the understatement!
Thanks for showing the Washington doofuses how it's done. Good on youse guys!
Fences still need to be patrolled 24/7.
No, build the fence and after it's complete send 100% of the Mexican illegals back from whence they came (Mexico) and cancel the guest worker program. It always makes me mad when I hear "It would cost too much to send them back." No it wouldn't, just take the 20-something billion they're wiring back home to pay for sending them back. If that's still not enough, bill Mexico for the rest. If they want to come here to work/live then let them come in legally like everyone else.
It makes it sound like he just wanted a free fence, rather than an effective fence, doesn't it? I wondered about that, too. A pair of wire cutters on a couple of strands of the "more modest fence", and it seems like it will be business as usual for the illegals who wish to cross his land. Grupo Beta will probably even give them the wire cutters.
As an aside, was Grupo Beta the one's who were giving away the sneakers with compasses on them?
Yep, sure sounds like they think the Gov is in their pocket. Their very best buddy is el senatore Juan McCain. I'll bet he's furious about ANY efforts to secure the border.
Most likely Yes.
I have some suggestions for improvements and additions to HR 4437, the House Illegal Alien Bill.
1. Add an explicit statement that AMERICAN CITIZENS have explicit permission to observe and report border infringement, as well as border enforcement actions by local, state, or federal authorities.
2. The Border Patrol should be required to cooperate with citizens engaged in such observation and reporting. Interfering, or attempting to interfere with such activity should be a misdemeanor on first offense and a felony thereafter.
3. Perhaps we need to shut down some of the low-value "volunteer" government supported agencies and create a "Border Volunteer Organization" that would perform this service.
4. The "new Minutemen" should receive official recognition for the special service they have performed in reminding our government officials, to to bottom, of the duty they should have performed.
5. The Senate bill contains nothing of value to compromise on.
While I support the fence, anyone want to place a small wager on how long it is before some illegal walks into the fence intentionally, claims injury, and gets another liberal judge to award him the ranch?
America: Where the phrase "don't give away the farm" isn't just a metaphor anymore.
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