Posted on 04/20/2006 6:12:54 AM PDT by 300magnum
TUCSON, Ariz. - Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will.
Simcox said Wednesday that he's sending an ultimatum to the president, through the media, of course — "You can't get through to the president any other way" — to deploy military reserves and the National Guard to the Arizona border by May 25.
Or, Simcox said, by the Memorial Day weekend Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers and supporters will break ground to start erecting fencing privately.
"We have had landowners approach," Simcox said in an interview. "We've been working on this idea for a while. We're going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise."
Simcox said a half-dozen landowners along the Arizona-Mexico border have said they will allow fencing to be placed on their borderlands, and others in California, Texas and New Mexico have agreed to do so as well.
"Certainly, as with everything else, we're only able to cover a small portion of the border," Simcox said. "The state and federal government have bought up most of the land around the border. I suspect that's why we'll never get control of the border."
But he said the plan is to put up secure fencing that truly will be an effective deterrent, and to show how easily it can be accomplished.
Simcox gave this description of the envisioned barrier-and-fencing complex:
Start with a 6-foot deep trench so a vehicle can't crash through; behind it, roll of concertina (coiled, razor-edged barbed wire), in front of a 15-foot high heavy-gauge steel mesh fence angled outward at the top.
Behind the fence will be a 60- to 70-foot wide unpaved but graded dirt road, along with inexpensive, mounted video cameras that can be monitored from home computers. On the other side of the road will be a second, 15-foot fence, with more concertina wire on its outside.
"It's a very simple, effective design based on feedback we've had from Border Patrol and the military," Simcox said. "It's a fence that can be built on the cheap, effective and secure."
Simcox said supporters will try to build the fencing with volunteer labor. Surveyors and contractors have offered to help with the design and survey work, he said, and some have said they will provide heavy equipment.
Simcox said those involved in the planning hope to keep costs to between $125 and $150 a foot.
Access to land literally on the border is an issue because so much is state-leased trust property or federally owned, he said.
"You may have to deal with a situation where private property owners erect their own fences and may be faced with the president sending the National Guard to prevent them from protecting their private property," Simcox said.
He said the Minuteman plan is "to keep turning up the heat" until President Bush has to respond somehow.
Your attempt to use fear tactics to promote your agenda is pathetic.
Why don't they just build the Berlin Wall while they're at it?
Come on man, really! Why do these ranchers need all that land anyway. I mean I don't have that much property why should they get it? So they can act like a bunch of Nazis and oppress a bunch of poor migrants yearning for a better life? Maybe if they put trash cans on their property the migrants would deposit them in the can./sarc
Actually 260 people died trying to cross the Berlin wall and that is the Official estimate, the number was probably higher.
BTW, do have a picture of communist leader Erich Honneker haning in your home or office? Since you seem to admire so much the communist building of the wall.
No, the people who created the America that we know today immigrated LEGALLY.
What part of ILLEGAL seems to escape your comprehension.
Title 8 - Section 1025 states that anyone who fails to pass through an inspection when entering the country is guilty of a misdemeanor. After being deported and again entering without inspection, the charge is elevated to a felony. The law is on the books, Nimrod.
Send a Brick to build a wall
http://www.send-a-brick.com/brick.htm ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1617030/posts
Why don't they just build the Berlin Wall while they're at it?
The so called "Minute Men" have become an embarrassment to America and a disgrace to the name they have stolen.
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Foolish words. You might want to break open a history book or 2.
The BERLIN WALL was to keep their people IN...not out. HUGE difference.
The Minute Men are the example of the Constitution of these United States of America.
No, just welcoming good people to America.
" The so called "Minute Men" have become an embarrassment to America and a disgrace to the name they have stolen."
Not for most Americans.........time for you to head back to the DU barn.
And the exaxt quote in the Constitution where it says Americans should build a wall?
Whew you sound like the liberals with this "living Constitution" stuff.
They just want a better life for themselves and their families
It would be just as ugly no matter which side it was seen.
Is that Jamie Lee Curtis slapping the mortar on?
God Bless these Patriots.
Looks a little more like Leonardo DiCaprio
It would be just as ugly no matter which side it was seen.
Now they will face the legal hurdles put up by the enviro NAZIS and the Fed can put more effort into litigating the cases already filed.
By good people, I would assume you mean "law abiding". Illegally entering the country is antithetical to the entire idea of "good people".
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