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Is this what Trump's new borders could look like? New Mexico town is having a chain-liked fence...
The Daily Mail ^ | 8/23/2016 | Wills Robinson

Posted on 08/24/2016 5:03:47 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

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To: from occupied ga; Mrs. B.S. Roberts

Odd. That’s about what my Anti-Squirrel defenses around my bird feeders looks like.


21 posted on 08/24/2016 6:01:35 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Injustice anywhere...is a threat to Justice everywhere.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
The border wall/fence will not be one homogeneous structure. You have to balance effectiveness vs cost.

Some parts may actually be a wall - hopefully of some low maintenance and inexpensive material such as poured concrete or cinder block. Maybe with posts or some extension underground. Others may be a single, double, or even triple row of chain-link topped with barbed wire or razor wire. Low threat areas may be only a single row. There may be monitored open areas where there is no physical barrier in order to allow migratory animal crossings.

Along with the wall/fence there will need to be monitoring. You have to monitor because people will test it and try to breach it. Fixed optical sensors - both visible light and IR. Probably some kind of all-weather ground-based radar. Possibly random drone patrols. Possibly ground sensors (vibration, mobile ground penetrating radar) to look for tunneling activity.

Finally, there will have to be quick reaction forces equipped with off road vehicles and helicopters to respond to illegal crossings. Perhaps drones could be used to "buzz" the border (staying in our airspace of course) to warn-off would-be illegal crossers that they had been spotted. Ultimately though, personnel with guns, "boots on the ground" will have to show up and physically turn these invaders around and force them back across the border.

I believe that is an important point. We don't take them into custody, feed/water/clothe them, give them legal representation - none of it. We simply turn them around and point them south and follow them to the border. Sure, they'll camp and try to re-cross. Areas that become "hot" like this will merit upgrading the physical barriers in that area.

Once the journey and crossing becomes too difficult, people will stop coming. We don't have to make it impossible, that is impractical. We just have to make it difficult enough, and with a low enough probability of successfully crossing, that most people will stay where they are at. Who knows, maybe they could invest their time, energy and resources into improving their lot there rather than trying to get here. What a thought - keep the most resourceful and capable people there where they can help everyone on that side of the border.

22 posted on 08/24/2016 6:08:32 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Hubby says eventually America will be worse than Mexico then they will clamor to go back. Parasites always try and find the most beneficial host don’t they, bleed it dry, let go and move to the next plump victim.


23 posted on 08/24/2016 6:18:12 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (That chicken necked buck tooth varmint Hillary is headed toward the nine circles of hell)
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To: cyclotic
I told my kids that’s all you need to know about communism. Approach the wall with a Sharpie and die.

Fixed it.

Actually, you were probably dead well before you made it close to the wall - which was the final piece in the elaborate border fortification.

24 posted on 08/24/2016 6:23:15 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
That’s about what my Anti-Squirrel defenses around my bird feeders looks like.

And yet somehow I bet the squirrels still get through. Adding this to your squirrel defenses might help

25 posted on 08/24/2016 6:25:29 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

The MSMLSD group in the US is a joke.


26 posted on 08/24/2016 6:40:03 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

I like the way you think ...


27 posted on 08/24/2016 6:41:29 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: from occupied ga
We can spend all sorts of money erecting sound barriers across urban areas of interstate highway which have roughly the same or even greater costs.

And I found this amusing:

Fernando Garcia, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Border Network for Human Rights, told the Journal: 'In our opinion, the fencing has not necessarily been a good deterrence for immigration.

That's libtard speak for they will be more effective than we want!

28 posted on 08/24/2016 6:49:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

http://www.sachtimes.com/en/world/3513-israel-to-build-a-fence-along-the-jordan-israel-border

You only have to look to Israel for the border wall answer. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Also you see these types of walls on major highways in residential neighborhoods to keep out traffic noise and people.
http://noise-control.regionaldirectory.us/noise-barrier-720-ny.jpg


29 posted on 08/24/2016 6:50:23 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: SkyDancer

Unfortunately they are not. It is amazing the articles about the US that appear in British media, but not in American media.

“Narrative” has replaced news, instead of dispassionately reporting on events, the MSM does seem to ideologically screen what they choose to present the public. Events that do not fit the narrative are simply ignored.


30 posted on 08/24/2016 7:02:02 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

Most likely cause is their vocabulary is limited to kindergarten rhetoric.


31 posted on 08/24/2016 7:29:11 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: ThunderSleeps
If a bank robber successfully robs a bank and after escape there were no penalties if he got caught, would there be more or fewer bank robbers?

Walls are a waste of time, as long as the reward for crossing outweighs the penalty.

32 posted on 08/24/2016 7:30:45 AM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: from occupied ga
Can't see the posted URL from work. Security reasons. But from the name of it I get your drift.

I have suggested this mode of proactive defense but wifey forbids it. And they are her feeders so...

Plus, the area is not nearly as sparsely populated as I feel comfortable with when "going ballistic". But...I will get the suckers. So far, my latest passive design is keeping them at bay.

33 posted on 08/24/2016 8:51:32 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Injustice anywhere...is a threat to Justice everywhere.)
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