CA: Border fence across deep canyon will begin to be built next month (Smuggler's Gulch)

San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 5/7/08 | Leslie Berestein

[Doomonyou]

Looking east on the Mex side of the border with the Existing double fence.

[DTogo]

Build it here, build it NOW!!

[Dante3]

BUMP

[kellynla]

Maybe we should have contracted the Israelis to build it! LOL

[kellynla]

Like pulling teeth! LOL

If Bush had deployed troops & the Corps of Engineers after 9/11 to the border; we would have had a secure border by now...on both ends of the country!

[jamese777]

I live in San Diego. We also have this rather large oceanfront bordering on Mexico where there is no fence. You can surf or fishing boat into America from Mexico.

[AuntB]

Thank you Duncan Hunter!

[MovementConservative]

In September 2005, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff set a precedent by exercising the waiver authority in San Diego.

And yet he still gets ripped by those who are never happy.

[70th Division]

What a great idea. Gather all that trash up and CHUCK it over the boarder. What fun! Maybe we could make a Holiday out of it. Chuck-O De Trash-O !

[A CA Guy]

They may need concrete in that particular place.

Maybe they should use a solar power sound system featuring the looped song stylings of Yoko Ono.

“MAKE THEM PAY DEARLY FOR TRESSPASS”, I say.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I think the uN and Amnesty Int’l may have a legitimate gripe if he did,, something about cruel and unusual punishment/torture to the surrounding wildlife and those hiding behind the bushes. (no, not those Bushes) ;-)

Wandering Ted Kennedy in the desert would be an eyesore for sure....He would probably end up like Chevy Chase from the movie Vacation....

[2dogjoe]

Jamese777, I see in post #2 that it shows “proposed additional fencing”, so what type of fence is there at the moment? Thanks.

[SoCalPol]

This is the San Diego border crossing into Tijuana. 24 lanes of traffic always backed up for at least an hr or more.

[SoCalPol]

[jamese777]

“Jamese777, I see in post #2 that it shows “proposed additional fencing”, so what type of fence is there at the moment? Thanks.”

See post #21 for pictures of the fencing. Click below for an additional photo of the fence.

http://www.sandiego.edu/tbi/images/border_fence.jpg

[JoanneSD]

What an amazing picture.. that is exactly what the river bed looks like coming out of TJ, but I guess Bob Filner, wears blinders when he passes that area...if he ever does..When he was first elected in his first month, the whole river backed up and flooded the area out..it was a disaster.. I remember I went to some of the home owners meetings with him, to get aid.. and some how he manged to get Mexico aid before the US side of the border.. and when I questioned this, he said that it was easier to get money to Mexico than to the US, and besides it was only 25.000 dollars..

[Liberty Valance]

Yep.

[2dogjoe]

Thanks for the link.

I hope we get a good, tough and long-lasting fence down here in South Texas.

[RJL]

The project will require cutting earth from surrounding hills and filling in the canyon with more than 2 million cubic yards of dirt, an operation so large that critics fear disastrous environmental consequences.

The environmental folks have to think about the CO2 emissions and the dreaded urban sprawl that will be vastly reduced with millions of fewer illegals in the US.

[Sterco]

I am far more concerned about the trash that makes it through.....