Comments on: ‘Why in the world does this take so long to do?’

By: Flanker

Flanker — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:41:08 +0000

jaymaster is right. I had many chances to study the “separation fence” in Israel while I was workng there. It’s actually a several yard tall concrete wall with manned guard towers space out along it, as well as automated electronic monitoring systems. Leaving aside the politics of building it, and it’s routing and location……………it works. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY goes through that bad boy. It’s been very effetive at it’s intended purpose.

By: J.M. Heinrichs

J.M. Heinrichs — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:49:15 +0000

Maybe this guy should be queried?
http://www.reyesforcongress.com/about.php

Cheers

By: jaymaster

jaymaster — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:46:27 +0000

The problem here is 100% political, not technical, and not because of bureaucratic implementation.

We’ve had the technology to seal the borders (land at least) for 100 years.

Put up a 12 foot tall hardened steel fence topped by razor wire, 20 yards of buffer land, and another fence with razor wire.

Post a guard with a rifle (or a machine gun) in a tower every 200 yards. Just take a look at any county prison. We do it all the time.

And if we REALLY wanted to seal it off, we would mine the buffer zone. Cheap and easy.

But it ain’t gonna happen. Way too many people benefit from an easy flow of illegal immigrants.

And those folks know how to exploit the good hearted, touchy feely people who worry about criminals getting cut on such a fence, thirsting to death in the desert, or God forbid, getting blown to bits after they cut their way through the first fence.

And then there’s the suffering of all those innocent animals who could never adapt to such a barrier….

By: 11 Bravo

11 Bravo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:20:48 +0000

It’s obvious they don’t want the border enforced.

I wish we had a President like Ike again. Just read this article about Ike’s Operation Wetback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

Too bad the current Prez would never do this. Even RINOs like Bush or McCain would never do this.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:58:52 +0000

…Are you familiar with the phrase “Close enough for government work”?

I doubt there was a significant competitive bidding process involved with any of these projects and the projects suffer as a result.

By: B Woodman

B Woodman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:43:42 +0000

Yep! AW1 Tim, them’s my thought exactly. Bring in the HUMAN element.

By: AW1 Tim

AW1 Tim — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:10:46 +0000

The other option, of course, is for the people to secure the border themselves. Whenever the government is unable or unwilling to do those things for the people which need to be done, then it is incumbent upon those same people to take up the task themselves.

I would think that, in this situation, the forming, training, and deployment of an armed militia would be exactly what is needed to secure our border(s).