Border Fence Fiasco(Chuck Norris)

worldnetdaily.com ^ | April 28, 2008 | Chuck Norris

[kellynla]

Last week Customs and Border Protection officials reported that two months after Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, approved a $20 million virtual fence along a 28-mile stretch in Arizona (called Project 28), the fence was scrapped as impractical and ineffective.

Is anyone really shocked by this security fence fiasco? Another government solution bites the dust.

Our government has failed to produce a suitable resolution to the illegal immigrant crisis. Amnesty is not the answer. And immigration laws aren't effective if we continue to dodge or ignore them. Furthermore, globalization efforts have only confused security matters, endangering our borders as well as our national identity – our sovereignty.

While border patrols and homeland security have made some headway, our nation's boundaries, ports and airports remain largely open runways for illegal and terrorist transport. For example, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., just sent out his newsletter update (April 21, 2008) reminding us about another type of illegal crossing, those from the United States to Mexico. It appears drug cartels are again using revenue derived from their "free trade" to illegally purchase weapons in the U.S. and smuggle them back into Mexico, where they are bolstering murder rates up 100 percent in certain towns.

Exacerbating the security crisis is the fact that there continues to be a shortage of both Border Patrol and other safety government officials. The Homeland Security Department is still trying to fill last year's 138 vacancies in high-level jobs – an employment crisis that it calls "a critical homeland security issue that demands immediate attention."

[kellynla]

And after BOTH borders are secured. The 300K foreigners incarcerated in our federal and state prisons should be deported. There is absolutely no reason why American taxpayers should have to pay conservatively SIX AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to incarcerate other countries criminals. It's not like we are long on prison cell space and short on AMERICAN criminals. And by deporting these foreigners we will automatically open up slots for AMERICAN criminals who are roaming about the country committing more crimes.

[kellynla]

ping

[Travis McGee]

"Virtual" fences are only meant to gull the sheeple.

Note that there is a very real fence around the Whitehouse....backed up by sensors and guards.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[ontap]

I think maybe this is the fence some want to engage.

[Diogenesis]

Virtual defenders of America in an impotent US Congress
only interested in its own gluttony.

Borders, walls, and fences are only as good as the leaders and personnel willing to defend them.

[ryan71]

Norris/Daniels 2012

[bcsco]

Yeah, I no sooner posted the daily ping, and this came up on my next refresh. Sheesh! It’ll be the first on tomorrow’s list.

[kabar]

And for the remaining illegal immigrants already in this country, I agree again with Newt: "Workers who came here illegally but have a good work relationship and community ties (including family), should have first opportunity to get the new temporary worker visas, but instead of paying penalties, they should be required to go home and get the visa at home."

Norris did ok until the above. Temporary workers stay. They don't go home. If someone entered this country illegally and probably committed ID theft and other crimes, he/she should be disqualified from receiving any type of visa.

[FreeAtlanta]

Chuck for VP!

[PreciousLiberty]

To heck with Huck...Chuck Norris for President! heh

[kenth]

Fence? Who needs fences when we've got plenty of these across the country...

[FastCoyote]

You know, even a fence with gaps would funnel people into zones where they could be apprehended. So even a fence with gaps would work better than a virtual fence.

[kellynla]

Oh, this whole business of a fence/wall & illegals is so ridiculous.
“IF” Bush had “gotten on the stick” and deployed the Corps of Engineers to BOTH borders after 9/11, had them build a fences/walls and deployed troops to guard those installations;
this whole business would have been rectified by now.
But, Mexico evidently has Bush in their “back pocket” so we’ll just have to badger McCain to finish the job next year. The savings from deporting incarcerated foreigners and deporting illegal aliens will more than pay for the walls/fences on BOTH borders in the first year!

[Guenevere]

How are you going to 'badger' McCain when he spearheaded the Amnesty bill in the first place (with W's approval, of course)....

...If McCain gets the Presidency (& we saw how he rose like the proverbial phoenix after last summer)...

..that will be his reward for doing the President's bidding.

[kellynla]

McCain says he has changed his position on the border and will secure the border...all anyone can do is take a person at their word....

after all, even Reagan “dropped the ball” on illegals too by not demanding that the bill he signed for amnesty also enforce border security.

gezzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[sinanju]

I agree. Just who is going to define what constitutes “good work relationship and community ties”?

You came here illegally, you must leave.

[b9]

Well, maybe if Chuck Norris had endorsed Duncan Hunter instead of the dog beater’s daddy, the fence would’ve gotten serious play.

[kellynla]

Not to get too far afield,
I like Duncan BUT he needs to win a statewide office like governorship before he tries to run for POTUS.
He just wasn’t able to garner the votes for a presidential candidacy at this time.
I would love to see him as the next governor of CA!!!

[Guenevere]

While I appreciate your threads on the issue of illegal immigration...

..I don't appreciate you associating Reagan's one (of very few) mistakes with

..McCain's glaring problems with this issue and many more.