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To: datura

What's a lot worse than triple strand concertina? Cholla cactus. I can breach wire barriers; I don't F with Cholla. It looks soft and brushy, like pine needles, but it will penetrate anything you'd be likely to wear, like leather boots. The needles come off in you with the slightest provocation.

Nasty, painful but reasonably good looking at a distance. It grows itself, doesn't need repair, and thrives on benign neglect in the arid border regions. Plant a belt of it along the border, and you'd need heavy equipment to open a gap in it.


24 posted on 04/06/2005 7:19:44 PM PDT by Riley
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To: Riley
What needs to happen is for the Feds to start enforcing the laws against hiring illegals. Since '86 when criminal penalties were established there's only been one, count them, ONE case which was criminally prosecuted.

Walmart paid a fine equal to about 15 minutes of their anuual revenue.

I'd like to see some of the farms who employ these people raided by INS and then prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Couple that with your chola cactus idea, which I like very much by the way, and we could make a dent in the problem.

L

55 posted on 04/07/2005 7:55:38 AM PDT by Lurker (Remember the Beirut Bombing; 243 dead Marines. The House of Assad and Hezbollah did it..)
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To: Riley
Plant a belt of it along the border, and you'd need heavy equipment to open a gap in it.

If it's that dangerous to handle, how do you go about planting or transplanting it?

56 posted on 04/07/2005 8:57:33 AM PDT by Steve0113 (Stay to the far right to get by.)
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