[mass55th]

Is that your gut feeling Mike?

[Plutarch]

...local officials, business groups and environmentalists have spoken out against the wall as unnecessary and unwanted.

I guess we can't build it then, because the dubious interests of the few on the border outweigh that of the rest of the Nation.

[Tennessee Nana]

PINGY

Will he or wont he actually BUILD THE WALL/FENCE?

[Diogenesis]

This is BS for plausible deniability when the next attack comes.
Proof:
1) Chertoff will only "begin by this autumn". Why wait?
2) Chertoff will only begin where there is "strong local opposition". Why there?
3) Chertoff threatens to use "eminent domain to seize land' to increase fears, only so that he will be stopped.
4) Chertoff does not expect to finish the wall because he says, "I expect we'll be doing some construction in Texas this fiscal year".

This is obviously a plan to do nothing. Again.

[dforest]

That brings to mind “Actions speak louder than words”. When all 800 miles are finished, finished properly and patrolled...well..we’ll see.

Hey Chertoff, what about those employers, we need daily action on that, no welfare benefits to illegals, and some deportation too.

[DuncanWaring]

Washington aims to have "operational control" of the border by 2013...

2013!?

That's TWELVE YEARS after the WTC came down.

More than three times the length of our active involvement in the Second World War.

Longer than the Apollo program.

Too darned long.

[Sir Hailstone]

I’ll believe it when I see it

[RetSignman]

How long did it take the people of Israel to erect their wall? It was very effective and, as I recall, it didn’t take that long to construct it.

The government needs to stop hedging and follow a proven example of keeping people on their side of the border.

[HonestConservative]

DDD!

[SkyDancer]

“Some?” “Soon?” ..... what does that supposed to mean? Within the next millennium????

[HardStarboard]

>>>Work on Texas border wall to begin soon: Chertoff<<<

The term “soon” is very imprecise - particularly when it comes from an administration that has dilly-dallied on border protection for nearly 6 years.

[DustyMoment]

"I expect we'll be doing some construction in Texas this fiscal year," . . . . . .

The words "some" and "soon" are weasal words that lack strong commitment or definition. Chertof is playing the appeasement card while not planning on doing any actual building on the wall. He, like Bush, opposes any action that will limit the ability of either terrorists or illegals to sneak into the US.

Anything that Chertof says should be taken with an entire salt mine as opposed to a grain of salt. The man is a professional liar.

[airborne]

The local opposition is businesses profiting off of the cheap labor, and the illegals themselves.

Oh, and the drug runners and ‘coyotes’ too!

[longtermmemmory]

remember a law has ALREADY been passed which exempts border fences from the environmental delay tactics.

Of course I will believe the wall when I see the wall.

The only objectors are the coyotes, illegal aliens on the way, and open border leftists.

[melancholy]

Hey Shitoff, build a real fence/wall, NOT a gut fence. Got that, moron?

[attiladhun2]

Work on Texas border wall to begin soon: Chertoff

About the time they get around to enforcing immigration law.

[dforest]

I really need to see Baghdad Bob with Chertoffs face.

Are they brothers?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Chertoff told the Houston Chronicle the federal government "can't rule out" using powers of eminent domain to seize land for the wall that is intended to stem the flow of illegal immigrants entering the United States from Mexico.

Eminent domain away baby! Just make sure the wall is a good one.

[CHEE]

I see in the article that our modern Homeland Security is to be through with the 760+ miles of fence (secure our borders) by 2013. I invite your attention see what the 3,000,000 acre ranch of the XIT ranch did in the early 1880’s. Here is an excerpt from Duke’s “6,000 Miles of Fence”:

“There was, of course, more to running a ranch than raising money and raising steers. From the beginning the XIT was placed more and more under fence. In the first year alone 781 miles were fenced; each year this total was increased until finally the equivalent of 6,000 miles of single-strand fence were strung—enough fence to run from New York to Los Angeles and return, and still have several hundred miles left over.”

The table of contents and additional excerpts can be found at: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exduk600.html

[PsyOp]

While were at it, how about some Pirahannas for the Rio Grande?