Study: Price for border fence up to $49 billion

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 8, 2007 | Tyche Hendricks

[Dane]

Well of course walls are expensive, all one has to do is look how building walls brought down the communist Soviet Union.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[I see my hands]

"Price for border fence up to $49 billion"

A borer fence in place.. Priceless.

[RodgerD]

How's the Cry for Help coming along?

[VastRWCon]

Just build the freaking fence already... Geesh.

[King Moonracer]

Those Soviets had a real hard time with illegal immigrants. Especially the East Germans. They probably had 1 or 2 a year.

[spectre]

"Those who do not learn from History are doomed to repeat it".

Remember the Alamo..?

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[trumandogz]

49 Billion and it will not stop half the illegals coming across the border.

[gubamyster]

ping

[microgood]

Ted Steven's bridge to nowhere must be part of it.

[Mojave]

$13,000+ per foot? Bovine scat.

[Lurker]

I see our resident lib dem Dingus is now using the SF Chronicle as an unbiased news source.

No surprise there.

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[Plutarch]

This is probably using the Federal rules that stipulate union labor rates.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I think all illegals who want to stay should be sponsored by a real American citizen who would be held equally responsible for the crimes these illegals commit every day.

Would you volunteer, Dane? (Assuming you are not an illegal yourself.)

[Afronaut]

Congress has so far provided the Department of Homeland Security with $1.5 billion for upgrading infrastructure and technology at the border this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

Can I see some receipts please?

[Fierce Allegiance]

There is a big distinction between this wall and the walls of the Communists. They put them up to entrap their citizenry, this one is to protect our people.

Much more like the Great Wall of China than the Brandenburg Gate.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Good start, though!

[Ron2]

Or at least give our Border Patrol weapons so they don't have to run from the Mexicans. I'd be willing to bet that the American people would even donate money to build that fence...............if a reputable company could be found to build it. And that doesn't mean Diane Finstien's husbands company that is a main contractor in Iraq.

[patton]

Um, FA? It ain't going to work. If there is a market on tis side, and a supply on that side, no fence will ever stop it, no matter the cost.

Not that I am taking sides...but, black-market cigs are pretty easy to find in NYC, you know...cost a lot less then the $70/carton legal ones...

Come to think of it, you can get drugs in prison.

Why is that, you think?

[exit82]

Cheap, compared to the cost of losing a major American city to terrorism.

Let's stop talking and start building.

[Mojave]

If there is a market on tis side, and a supply on that side, no fence will ever stop it, no matter the cost.

There is a market in stolen cars. Do you leave your doors unlocked and your key in the ignition?