Posted on 04/04/2005 12:44:34 PM PDT by Crackingham
None actually.
By default the media is against it. The higher you go up in the governmental chain, everyone doesn't give a flying flock.
So it begins. Of course, if it were really true that "Every sensor has to be addressed" then there would have been no illegal crossers in those locations previously.
This guy Maheda has uttered an elegantly short self-evident lie.
I think the media didn't give a **** about the tripped sensors until they had to cover this story.
A wall could be built for about the same cost as an equivalent length of highway.
Would you pay for that much highway to be built if it would stop a flow of illegals that costs tens of billions in welfare, unpaid medical bills, and crime? Of course.
Such a wall would not have to be perfect. It would only have to sharply reduce what is today a completely uncontrolled flow.
Might be a lot of that, but the huge number of border crossers still makes the estimates of illegals in the country a pretty sad joke.
I see you have a background in sigint. So run these numbers in your head: Do you think the international prepaid calling card business can support itself entirely on legal and officially estimated illegals? Or do you think our government does not want us to see the enormity of the problem?
Anyone who can fog a mirror can get a credit card and, hence, a postpaid account with a wireless MNO. Why do we have a HUGE growth in prepaid wireless? Not young kids - they are on their parents' family postpaid accounts.
Based on some VERY basic traffic analysis, I bet our government has a pretty good handle on the actual number of illegals, and it's a LOT more than 20M.
It wouldn't reduce it. There were walls near where I lived. They'd just climb over them, or dig under them. No big deal. They had tunnels big enough to drive a car inside.
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