I live a few blocks from the border. If I get on my roof, I can see the fence. We could get a potato over the border with a decent potato gun. That being said, They are doing a lot of law enforcement in our sector. On one highway, the border patrol outnumber the regular travelers. That is no exaggeration.
I think what most people don’t realize about sealing off the border is that there is a great deal of desert, mountain land to secure. Even in the places that have fences (our city), the mexicans go under it, over it or through it. We caught a couple of them coming through a double-fenced concrete-reinforced section within a couple of miles of the house.
It is my honest opinion that we need to militarize the border. National Guard should be sitting on the border fence. THAT being said, most of the border here in Arizona is just desert scrub brush. You would literally have to post a soldier every 50 feet, and still some might get through.
This was just to let you know that border patrol is doing something.
My specific area of concern is the border along the Tohono O'Odom Reservation. That's a big hole that hasn't been plugged.....almost planned that way.
By the way, it is not difficult to build a double fenced section of wall/fence with automated motion sensors, cameras, listening / vibration sensors.
US ANG units with legs can rotate in and out to fly / police a hot spot quickly.
If illegal traffic warrants, add motion triggered twin 25 mm chain guns that are track locked in their field of fire. Computers using IR / FLIR can identify humans caught in no man's land. Simple actually, but initial outlays are high, but construction jobs are now needed. As a last resort strips between those gun towers can be mined too. (Would hate to see that though) The long term effects would pay itself and the maintenance.
Go overseas to other countries and look at their borders. For that matter Mexico has a fence pretty much along its entire southern border.
This is all political, plain and simple cause the ONAS doesn't want it that way.
BTW, I'm talking a 10 yr build.
It's much cheaper to enforce our laws and imprison American employers that employee illegals and stick the upkeep bill to the taxpayer....now that's the truth and we all know it.
TB, whooping cough, Chargis, hepatitis, etc. are costing us a lot now not to mention 74 bankrupted hospitals mandating into bankruptcy by their own government. Those were lost skilled jobs too.
With respect to US border security, I know what freshly painted bull manure smells like that is peddled by the snake oil salesmen called politicians.
So please do not tell me that it's difficult to build 1700 miles of wall and border fencing. It all could have been done starting in 2002 with an executive order ushered in with blessing from Congress.
It would have made a great public works project for the recession that immediately followed 9/11. Unfortunately, the CFR, TC, ONAS, and the NWO told W not to do it. The gov could have looked the other way using illegal labor sub-conned to have built it. The gov looks the other way now, what's the difference? (Sorry, I apologize, not slamming you personally in the least...just the double-forked tongues that assume everyone is dumb and won't do anything about it.)