Posted on 08/24/2016 5:03:47 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
ENTIRE TITLE: "Is this what Trump's new borders could look like? New Mexico town is having a chain-liked fence used to keep illegal immigrants out replaced with an 18ft high STEEL WALL"
A New Mexico town is having an 18ft steel wall being built across the border to replace a dilapidated chain-link fence.
The new barrier is being put up in Sunland Park along a section of one of the most unprotected parts of the Mexican-American border. Only 10ft high fencing dotted with holes has separated the town from dangerous neighborhoods just a few miles away since the 1980s.
Since then, there has been a constant flow of immigrants border agents have struggled to control. The $11million wall will also have 5ft of reinforced steel dug underground - in a bid to stop tunneling.
But the imposing structure is also a glimpse into what Donald Trump may be looking to put up if he is elected in November. Construction has been going on in the area since 2008. It is expected to finish early next year, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
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.
'But it does represent a symbolic response, a very aggressive response, to immigrants and the border community.'
Across the border lies Anapra, a violent suburb of Ciudad Juarez. While officials say crossings into Sunland Park have decreased while the fence project is under way, they still occur frequently. This stretch of border has been the site of the Mass celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead for the last 17 years.
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Odd. That’s about what my Anti-Squirrel defenses around my bird feeders looks like.
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.
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.
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.
And yet somehow I bet the squirrels still get through. Adding this to your squirrel defenses might help
The MSMLSD group in the US is a joke.
I like the way you think ...
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!
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
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.
Most likely cause is their vocabulary is limited to kindergarten rhetoric.
Walls are a waste of time, as long as the reward for crossing outweighs the penalty.
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.
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