Posted on 01/31/2008 12:39:40 PM PST by mdittmar
Areas of once-untouched desert are now disappearing under a lengthening slice of man-made fencing....”
Baloney. The mountains of trash left behind by the illegals has ruined huge areas of “once-untouched desert.”
Nonsense.
Fewer Crossing Border Due To National Guard And Drones
Illegal immigration drops sharply along US-Mexico border
Once easy, Illegal Immigration Now Risky:President Bush Builds 12 ft Tall Steel Fence Along Mexican Border From The Pacific Into Arizona, Plus Around Major Populated Areas In Arizona and Texas
Illegals Deported By The Planeload Now
"The president cited a 66 percent increase in border-security funding since he took office, along with a 42 percent increase in interior-enforcement spending and a total of 6 million illegal aliens caught and returned home." http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060326-123457-5749r
DHS Announces CBP Border Patrol Agent Deployment Schedule
Washington, D.C. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced today the fiscal year 2006 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent deployment schedule. In a significant increase in personnel, an additional 1,700 CBP Border Patrol agents will be assigned to the southwest border.
http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/archives/2005_press_releases/0122005/12072005.xml
Lambcakes, it's the Republican Party in both Houses who killed the immigration bill.
The fence isn’t only being built in one spot. X number of teams building x number of segments of fence simultaneously at around a mile a month can complete the project in less than 58 years.
Electronics monitoring approach to fence...fence...road...fence...electronics monitoring 100 yards inside US border...and UAVs overhead would be a barrier in depth in my view.
Actually, this piece is pretty fair for Duncan Kennedy. He seems to be the BBC’s Mexico correspondent, so tends to be a little more sympathetic to Mexicans’ views.
Understood, except that monitoring isn't a barrier.
So let us keep it front and center.
There you go. It only takes one guy to make sense out of confusion. Thanks. /s
And here I thought we were talking about 700 years. /s
That was actually pretty good humor.
The “immigration bill” was a total sell-out of our country. And it’s “Miss Williams” to you, sir.
But, we can nitpick on and on. The idea that an electronic barrier can be put in place is one that would be best served only, IMHO, when it complimented a good strong physical barrier like the double fence.
Wouldn’t want it any other way. I’m just at the end of my rope with the digust that acompanies the mere mention of it.
Monitoring is good.
The fence is good.
Do both.
That’s defense.
Now, for “defense in depth,” we would then need a physical barrier (personnel and/or obstacles) to the rear of the above.
Round and round and round we go.
There are at least four comments on this thread all positing the same thing: that work on the fence is being worked linearly one piece at a time. Reserve your /ss for them.
It was defeated.
Are you capable of admitting in public who defeated it (wait, lemme guess, the American people...anyone but the GOP, right?!)?
See 59.
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