"Here's the basic problems: A - much of the terrain sucks; rough, nasty, hot, poison animals, and suprisingly low visibility (creosote bushes which are the most common flora around these parts seem to be designed by God to hide stuff, they grow about 7 feet tall and 8 feet around, are nearly impossible to see through and like to grow in lose clusters you can walk through if you don't mind a couple of scrapes), canyons, rivers, mountains, the tail end of Death Valley" And blah, blah, blah.
Some idle and obvious potential measures:
• How about a one-mile strip strewn with land mines along the entire length of the border?
• How about using the National Guard to aid the INS in rounding up illegals? I propose tattooing the INS logo on the left buttock of every single illegal detained. "Amigo, we find you back here with this tattoo, we execute you." And do it a few times, on TV, and make sure the media in Mexico get tapes.
We are being invaded, taken over, and the conversion of the American Southwest into Atzlan (which I have no doubt you'd support and enjoy living in) proceeds apace.
We are at war, and wartime measures are called for.
--Boris
Land mines, cute note very effective, kind of hard on legal travel between the two nations.
The problem with rounding up the illegals isn't a lack of firepower, it's a lack of knowledge combined with a lot of freedom.
We aren't being invaded, the American southwest is NOT being turned into anything, I do live here, that's how I know that paranoid racist crap is just that- CRAP.