Americans who live near border say Trump's wall is unwelcome

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 22, 2016 | Frank Bajak

[artichokegrower]

Forget Donald Trump's Great Wall.

The people who live in the bustling, fertile Rio Grande Valley, where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico, think a "virtual wall" of surveillance technology makes a lot more sense. It's already in wide use and expanding.

[Vaquero]

Hope your happy. Now you’ve screwed up the thread.

[D Rider]

while it is true that any date that is not guarded can be gotten through there are secondary measures that make a gate secure. you mentioned one but that’s not the only one.

[deport]

Does anyone know what is the actual river boundary is along the Rio Grande. Most rivers have
some outreach beyond where just the water normally flows. I know the Texas/USA border meanders
along the Rio Grande but not necessarily just the center of the river north.

If the state owns the land of the river to some point inland then there maybe enough
land to build the wall without having to expropriate land. But if the land owners along the
river owns to the actual USA border then land will have to be taken for building the wall.

Does anyone the ROW river boundaries, etc?

[Dusty Road]

“Well, begging your pardon, but they’re NIMBY idiots, just like Kennedys advocating windmills but not wanting them off Martha’s Vineyard to spoil their view.”

The windmills were not going to be on private property.

The windmills didn’t involve imminent domain such as other are suggesting.

The windmills didn’t have an impact on peoples ability to support their families by cutting of an important resource that they paid for.

[supremedoctrine]

THERE! YOU JUST DID IT! And like George Costanza’s work on the Guggenheim Museum addition, “It didn’t take that long, either...”