Free-market solutions to a problem are good.
The drug cartels have pretty much killed the trips across the border to visit or shop.
The fence is not the best way to control 1200 milesbof a winding river — especially in the rural farm and ranches. Besides: The land is privately owned on the US side and none of us want the government commandeering our land.
Houses are cut off from the rest of the US, and cattle can’t get to the water or farmers lost their ability to irrigate.
And then, there are these big gaps every so often, with open gates or no gates. Also, the fence is only 10- 12 feet high. Trucks with ladders negate the usefulness.
What is needed are more border patrol personnel, more planes flying over and a stricter policy on meeting violence with the force of a nation that intends to protect its borders.
But, like the poorly designed, spit-and-a-promise fence, the feds and the federal courts prevent local law enforcement from taking up the slack. School districts are forbidden from even identifying the children of illegals in schools. We’ve managed to hold off on Medicaid for illegals, but our ERs pay the price, literally. And now, Obama’s administration has announced they don’t intend to require proof of citizenship for the “public option” of Obamacare."
Nice Post thanks, We have the military all that is needed, The "Right" CIC and the control of both ends in the house ,Then a law you get hit with a felony for employing Border criminals and give the interlopers 30 days to leave ,that Will start the mass Exodus,The rest get arrested and deported after some work with their Kids in tow.
And that's the problem with the troops on the border charades. The right CIC might someday secure the border with a sufficient number of troops. But if that should ever happen, as soon as the wrong CIC succeeds the right one, the wrong one can remove the troops and return the border to a highly uncontrolled condition.
The only long-term solution is double fencing everywhere it's needed and adequate BP patrolling 24/7/365. And securing our border, a matter of national security more than ever, is vastly more important than water for any ranch on the border.
It's the US-Mexico border, not the Texas-Mexico border. Until that is accepted and established, there will be continuous illegal entries, drug smuggling and other crime on the border.