Lawmaker proposes fence along entire Arizona-Mexico border

550 KFYI ^ | August 15, 2005

[TERMINATTOR]

State Rep. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), one of the most vocal opponents of illegal immigration who was a leading supporter of Proposition 200, is proposing the state build a fence along the 377 miles of border between Arizona and Mexico. He says the state needs to pick up the slack left by the federal government's lack of action at keeping illegal immigrants out of our state. A similar, five-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego cost $43 million; no pricetag has been mentioned for the Arizona fence. Pearce plans to sponsor a resolution in the legislature putting the proposal on the November 2006 ballot.

[TERMINATTOR]

Detour... California <<=======>> New Mexico

[randog]

Crododiles aren't indigenous to Arizona. Rattlesnakes, however, are.

[usurper]

The fence needs to be supplemented with land mines and a moat filled with crocodiles.

The land mines might work but the crocodiles would end up as belts and boots in short order.

[basil]

so low you can't get under it, so wide you can't get you can't get through it, so high you can't get over it--etc

LOL! Does anyone else remember that old song?

[King Prout]

HIRE ISRAELIS TO DO IT - at least they know how to make an effective barrier.

[CO Gal]

It's refreshing to see a lawmaker actually doing the job they were elected to.

[gubamyster]

ping

[conservativeharleyguy]

".....A similar, five-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego cost $43 million".

Dang, I think I'll quit my job and go into business selling fences to the government.

At 8.6 million dollars a mile, a man could make a pretty decent living at that.

[TERMINATTOR]

Heck, for that kind of dough you might even be able to hire gringo's to do the work.

[sarasmom]

Talk about an ironic "bid" situation!
All the shady construction companies using illegals....LOL!

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Good idea!

They could pay for this fence by putting the screws to the convicted employers of illegals.

Fine them into the ground.

Take the profit out of using illegals.

I'd also ID illegals, (how about bar codes tattooed on their foreheads?), who would then be deported. Later, if these same people are caught again I'd seek huge fines from them and make sure any property or money they had in the US was transfered to the state. They would then work on chain gangs until they paid off their fines. Then deport them again.

"Apply as needed."

Pavlov proved it, negative reinforcement works.

[HighlyOpinionated]

I'll wager a bet (50 cents being my limit) that if this fence is proposed and placed on the ballot and a grassroots organization started collecting contributions for the fence AND the labor that not only will the bill pass, BUT there will be enough materials and manpower donated to set the whole fence up. And it will all be done with private donations and by private citizens. All the Feds will need to do is plant a few mines in the underground tunnels used by the illegals (and some legals) and pay attention to their jobs.

I'll even wager another 50 cents that FR donors would help raise money and help put the fence up.

And maybe even put a bug in the Minutemen's ear about starting a grassroots organization to set up the fence.

If ONE State starts such a project, can other States be far behind?

[doodad]

David Byrne and Brian Eno? My life in the bush of ghosts album?

[who knows what evil?]

That resolution will pass by 75%- 25% easy. Get the popcorn.

[HighlyOpinionated]

NEXT thought: Why and how do so many of the illegals who come to Georgia come through UTAH? What's with that?

[alloysteel]

My suggestion, made earlier, was to dredge out a sea-level canal from Brownsville, Texas, following the course of the Rio Grande, the current border between US and Mexico all along through New Mexico, Arizona and California, to Chula Vista. The canal would be wide enough for the largest of supertankers to pass unimpeded, and as many as four smaller ships could occupy the channel abreast at any one given time.

The spoil from this excavation and dredging would be dumped in the Gulf of Mexico, gradually building a sufficiently large island to set up a Methane Hydrate recovery facility, where the product could be processed into motor fuels for the 21st and 22nd Centuries.

[Max in Utah]

Hey, I didn't see nothin'!

[Nebr FAL owner]

Hire former EAST GERMANS to build it. And it gets built cheap & correct the first time .

[wonderbat]

Are you Basil Rathbone?