Study: Price for border fence up to $49 billion

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

[BW2221]

Here's a good rule to live by: Believe all of what you see, half of what you hear and none of what Dane (FR's shill for illegal immigration) posts.

Dane - missed you on all the posts about crime by illegals today as well as any other FR threads. I don't know what your angle is, but you obviously have one. I wish you'd simply go back to DU and stop using a quote from Reagan as your tag line. You insult a great man.

[patton]

That is closer to a workable strategy, than just some damn fence that will get ignored.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Those little butterfly landmines are cheap and effective!

[BW2221]

From today's drudge Report:

Some Immigrants Are Re-Arrested 6 Times
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Immigrants arrested for being in the United States illegally may have been charged up to six more times, for more serious crimes, after they were released by local authorities, new Justice Department data indicate.

Additionally, a separate report also issued Monday concludes that the number of illegal immigrants deported after being declared a felon is on the rise.
The Justice findings by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine examined the criminal histories of 100 illegal immigrants arrested and then released by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. Of the sample group of 100, according to the audit, 73 immigrants were later arrested a collective 429 times - on charges ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.

The data suggest "the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high," the audit noted. The report, parts of which were redacted, was required by Congress in 2005 and looked at how local and state authorities that receive Justice Department funding are working with the Homeland Security Department.

[patton]

So are rabbits. Drive a horde of rabbits in front of you, the landmines just create hassenpfeffer.

[highball]

The border fence probably won't either, but it will slow them down.

My concern is that the fence will be used an an excuse not to do anything else. So if it isn't 100% effective, it could actually be harmful.

[org.whodat]

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

Your ignorance is only surpassed by your abject stupidity. Comparing a fence to keep people in as opposed to one keeping people out.

[LiveFree99]

Where are you now? In Southern Arizona handing out bottled water and maps in Spanish?

[ZULU]

"This doesn't have to be and should not be as costly an endeavor as some are suggesting."

No its doesn't.

You use the illegals you catch as labor to build it - and make sure they are on the outside when its completed.

[CharacterCounts]

In that same 25 year span, not taking into account any inflation the U.S. will spend at least $100 Trillion. $49 Billion is a very tiny fraction of the total.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Here's a discussion of their estimate:

http://americanpatrol.com/07-FEATURES/070103-BDR-FENCE-HOOEY/CRSACE.html

And, everyone should send their comments on the article to:

ReaderRep *at* sfchronicle.com

[lndrvr1972]

Can't they see the offset of savings from illegals will be a bargin.

[Hydroshock]

Cheap at twice the price.