Posted on 06/20/2006 3:32:36 PM PDT by EagleUSA
TUCSON, Ariz. - Two weeks on the job, the new head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday he does not favor building a huge wall along the Mexican border.
"I don't support, I don't believe the administration supports a wall," Commissioner W. Ralph Basham said in Tucson, where he met with patrol officials and agents before embarking on a tour across the Arizona desert.
Asked about proposals in Senate- and House-approved immigration measures to build security walls 380 or 700 miles long, respectively, Basham said, "It doesn't make sense, it's not practical."
As Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano put it, "You build a 50-foot wall, somebody will find a 51-foot ladder," he said.
Fencing, including so-called smart fencing with imbedded sensors, vehicle barriers and lighting will be part of the infrastructure improvements needed, Basham said. But a layered approach that mixes technology and air operations for observation and responding to illegal crossings will be necessary to control the border, he said.
"There is not a silver bullet out there, there's not one answer," he said.
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Lie. Machine guns and the will to use them are affordable and very effective. They work so well that armies routinely equip their soldiers with them.
Machine guns and the will to use them are affordable and very effective.
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And where is the will ?? Certainly not in the Washington government --- ANYWHERE. Sad time for America.
Har har har
Get his Pink Slip ready. OUT!
Obviously this man is unsuitable for the job. Walls are a bare minimum, we also need minefields and machine gun nests as appropriate.
A wall, like the one in parts of California is "impractical" but "Fencing, including so-called smart fencing with imbedded sensors, vehicle barriers and lighting" is implicitly impractical. Absurd.
One good p.r. move was calling it "smart fencing." Before they were calling it a virtual fence. Whatever it is is a semblance of something Bush can point to and its ineffectivity he will not take the fall for. Planned failure with plausible deniability.
This is sort of like reading an article titled: New Chief of Naval Operations: Carriers Are Not The Answer...
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Exactly. How stupid does Washington think we are? Having asked that question -- I don't think they even care. Gross arrogance and elitism has them blinded to the people they work for.
Walls? Not by themselves. Minefields should definitely be part of the system.
One good p.r. move was calling it "smart fencing." Before they were calling it a virtual fence. Whatever it is is a semblance of something Bush can point to and its ineffectivity he will not take the fall for. Planned failure with plausible deniability.
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Yes, just another non-event to keep Vincente happy at the TOTAL expense of the American citizen. The shaft job from Washington just gets more painful.
...Stimulate and accelerate cross-border technology trade by preventing unnecessary barriers from being erected...
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Since when does loading our country with criminal invaders, loading our welfare roles and medical system with parasites, destroying our soverignty and Constitutional protections for real Americans, even come close to "TECHNOLOGY TRADE" ???
Sick, twisted political arrogant absurdity.
This guy was a retired Secret Service agent who in March 2003 was brought back in to head the agency and clean it up. (It was another one of Bush's smart moves to keep a feckless Clinton apointee in the post until that date.) Whether he did the job is questionable. My own suggestion would be to just shut up and begin an investigation into the corruption in the Border Patrol.
My own suggestion would be to just shut up and begin an investigation into the corruption in the Border Patrol.
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Regardless, the ONLY solution to absolutely stopping the bulk of illegal flow (both ways) is a wall or fence. The rest of the BS subterfuge we get, all the hi-tech red herrings, is fruitless. This country and its demographics are in the process of being destroyed by corrupt elitist politicians.
The entire situation has to be stopped and turned around.
I agree .... twin 50s are better than any wall ...
Once the Israelis hear this, you can bet their's will come down. (sarc)
Why not use the arrested illegals to build the wall? 11,000,000 illegals working hard moving dirt, laying brick, stringing concertina wire, etc. could build the wall in a week. After all, they're good at construction. After they finish, march them to the other side of the wall.
Use the north side of the border as an artillery impact area.
Why not use the arrested illegals to build the wall?
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The vote-seeking Liberals (from both parties) would see that as "abusing criminal rights". As if these criminals have ANY RIGHTS...
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