[SJackson]

For comparison, a 135 mile fence being contemplated on the Israel-Egypt border is estimated to cost between $5 and $6 million a mile.

Israel considers building NIS 2.5 to 3 billion fence on Egyptian border

[Red Badger]

This ain’t rocket science.......unless the government gets involved............

[Robert A Cook PE]

All it takes is DESIRE to build it.

America built, dug, fabricated, excavated, welded, reburied, and covered over 5000 MILES of oil and gas piping in the MIDDLE of WWII - at the same time it was building over 540 airfields and hundreds of Army and navy bases and over 30,000 ships.

[theDentist]

Building a fence across the entire 1,952-mile border of the United States and Mexico can be done, with only two requirements needed, according to engineers. "All it takes is time and money."...

Hello? Location, location, location! And that's not meant as a joke. Of the little fencing that has been built, it was reported, a few miles of it was built on the wrong side of the border and will likely be torn down by the Mexican authorities. SO spend the money and the time, but build it on our side of the border too.

[Man50D]

Building a fence across the entire 1,952-mile border of the United States and Mexico can be done

Duncan Hunter has known this for a long time from his own experience.

[giobruno]

Engineering the fence is child’s play and everyone knows it. The people who say it’s pointless because the Mexicans will get over anyway are like saying we should have bank security because people will rob banks anyway. Believe me, a solid fence will make it a lot harder, and that it the idea.

[giobruno]

Whoops, I missed that, it ought to read “should not have bank security...”

[Obie Wan]

Geeeeeeeeeez,we landed men on the moon 40 years ago,ya think we might be able to build a damn 350 mile fence across our southern border now ???

[Wage Slave]

I’ll donate some of the money I was planning to put in my IRA and two weeks of my vacation time to provide free labor. Where do I sign up?

[SampleMan]

If fences don’t work at keeping people out, why has the government wasted so much money building them around its property inside the U.S.?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Someone! Anyone! Please! Give this “problem” to Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters...and that fence will be up in a week, guarded by solar-powered robot dogs. ;)

(This is SO frustrating, isn’t it?)

[Greg F]

Bass ackwards Congressmen just don’t get it. Border security is fundamental in a war with terrorists.

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping Raster. You all need to read this!

Emphasis:

At present, the federal government doesn’t plan on fencing off half of the entire border. Rather, Congress approved and President Bush signed a bill last year authorizing the construction of 854 miles of fencing to strategically seal 700 miles of the border.

Actual cost estimates for the 700 miles of secure border vary widely, between $3 million per mile initially estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to the far larger potential of $70 million per mile to build and maintain, according to a December 2006 Congressional Research Service report.

The high estimate for the entire wall is partially based on the past cost of litigation during the construction of the San Diego fence, said a spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.).

That should not be an issue now, spokesman Joe Kasper told Cybercast News Service, because those issues were settled in court while Congress has granted the Department of Homeland Security broad powers to construct a border-wall.

Since that Secure Fence Act was signed, fewer than 20 miles of fencing have been built.

That prompted Hunter to write a letter to the White House last month, in which the Republican presidential candidate called the “lack of progress unacceptable, especially when adequate funding is available to earnestly proceed with fence construction.”

[JustaDumbBlonde]

The fence in San Diego works, yet some complain that it does not work because the illegals now go to remote parts of Arizona. Obviously it does work if they are going to Arizona. The solution is to extend the fence through Arizona and beyond.

When the arguments that a fence won't work are successfully rebutted ... the proponents of illegals fall back on the environmental hazards of building the fence. When all else fails, threaten a lawsuit and years of litigation.

Build the triple-layer fence and let's see the difference. If it doesn't stop illegal aliens from flowing across the border, tear it down. It's not as if the government has never wasted money before. Simple fact is that it will work and that is what a bunch of folks don't want to see happen.

[Calpernia]

The Secure Fence Act written by Congressman Duncan Hunter, Presidential Candidate 2008, would extend THIS "San Diego Primary Fence" throughout our southern border states.

Take a LOOK at what we have now. Thank you Lil Dog of the Mountain Minutemen at Patriot Point!

More Photos available here.

Hat Tip.

[Sicon]

The high estimate for the entire wall is partially based on the past cost of litigation during the construction of the San Diego fence

Worthless, bottom-feeding $%#@*&! lawyers. When they're not busy bankrupting industries, they're out there undermining our sovereignty and security.

[Smokin' Joe]

The timeline for the entire 700 miles of fencing is tentative, she said. But, it is likely that some of that would come from a "virtual fence" - a large area protected through various electronic security measures.

WOuld she go out in public wearing 'virtual' clothing?

If that would not secure her person, then why would it secure a border?

Methinks the 'emperor' is buck-assed naked.

There will be a perpetual response to crisis situation, and it would not take long for the coyotes to figure out how to saturate the system so some people would inevitably get through.

Build the real thing, for Pete's sake, the money is there.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

We don't need a fence, it won't do any good.......

[Bitsy]

Then lets build the darn thing!

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