Posted on 04/21/2006 11:13:30 PM PDT by NapkinUser
TUCSON, Ariz. Spokesmen for a border watch group say volunteer offers to help build border fencing are flooding in.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has said it'll build fencing on the Mexican border unless President Bush militarizes the border and adds new security fencing.
Minuteman national leader Chris Simcox says the group has struck a chord with Americans.
Its members are conducting border operations to watch for and report illegal immigrants and smugglers entering the country.
People have offered to donate or help build a fence, have pledged equipment and say they want fencing on their land.
Simcox says landowners of some 70 miles of border property so far say they'll allow fortified fencing _ including about 15 contiguous miles in Arizona.
Simcox hopes to hold construction costs to between 125 and 150 dollars a foot.
The Washington Post estimates that an impassable wall would cost $2 million per mile. This is about 3.6 billion for the whole border. This is CHICKEN FEED compared to the costs inferred by having the illegals here.
"Simcox says ... some 70 miles of border... costs to between 125 and 150 dollars a foot."
Hope they can raise the ~$55.4 million they need to cover all 70 miles then...
I think I'm going to donate one foot of fencing. A small price to pay to send a loud message.
Minutemen plan to build 300-mile fence along US/Mexico border
April 21, 2006 08:03 AM
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4799466&nav=HMO6
Members of the Minuteman Project say if the government won’t build a fence on the border, they will.
Minuteman president Chris Simcox says they’re in the planning stages of constructing a border fence.
“It’s a double-layered fence with a road in between, with also a trench that will be dug facing the Mexican border so that vehicles cannot drive across and drive through the fence.”
Six private property owners living along the border are allowing the Minutemen to construct the barrier on their property.
Two construction companies are also donating the use of construction equipment and coordinating volunteer construction crews.
The fence will cost between ten and twelve million dollars to complete.
“If a million people send $10 each, that’s enough to build about 300 miles of fencing under the plan that we’ve devised,” Simcox says.
He says this is only the beginning.
“When we finish building fences on private property, if necessary, we’ll begin building it on government and state land,” Simcox says.
Cochise County ranchers like Roger Barnett are supporting the minutemen.
Barnett says, “I think it’s a great idea. Our government has been sitting back and doing nothing.”
Simcox would not identify the ranchers involved in the border fence project. He says they live in Cochise County and Yuma.
The Minutemen plan to break ground on the border fence over Memorial Day weekend.
God bless the Minutemen.
*bump* for later reading
A moat with alligators and poisonous snakes.
A moat with alligators and poisonous snakes.
"Go get us a s***load of dimes."
A moat with snakes and poisonous alligators.
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And sharks with frickin` laser beams on their heads. Maybe a few with jetpacks.
There are already poisonous snakes. Alligators would die out there...the desert is not for sissies.
Don't know. Why?
Guess I know what I can do with the $100 I was going to send to the GOP.
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