Posted on 05/25/2006 2:48:58 AM PDT by NapkinUser
A border-watch group will alter its plans for an elaborate border security fence southeast of Tucson to accommodate the needs of the host rancher, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps will be building two parallel 14-foot high, 150-feet-long steel mesh fences over the Memorial Day weekend to serve as a model on Jack Ladd's ranch in Palominas, but its design will be changed at his request, spokeswoman Connie Hair said. Minuteman volunteers also will build about 10 miles of fortified range fencing for Ladd, including five-strand barbed wire fortified with vertical steel rail posts, backed by coiled concertina wire and behind that, angled and crisscrossed steel rails embedded in concrete to act as vehicle barriers. The rails also will be designed to keep Ladd's cattle from reaching the concertina wire, Hair said.
In all, 350 volunteers will construct the fencing, she said. Several hundred more will set up stationary observation posts along the Mexican border near Naco over the holiday period, notifying the U.S. Border Patrol if they spot any illegal immigrants trying to cross.
Drug smugglers in heavy-duty pickup trucks routinely crash through Ladd's current barbed-wire fencing. The wire fencing also is frequently cut by coyotes — smugglers leading illegal immigrants about three miles north across his property from the border to Arizona 92. The original heavy-gauge mesh fencing complex was to have included a 6-foot deep trench to the south, facing Mexico.
Based on an Israeli security design, the trench was intended to keep vehicles from crashing through, with coiled and razor-edged concertina wire between the trench and the mesh fencing. A graded dirt road initially was planned between the two mesh fences, with more concertina wire and another trench planned for the north side of the interior fence.
But Ladd told the Sierra Vista Herald that he didn't want a fence of that design. "What we want is a barbed-wire fence with metal railings that will keep the drive-throughs from occurring and keep Mexican cattle out." In the model, concertina wire will be placed between the parallel mesh fences, Hair said.
"The trench and the concertina wire (on the outside) are not going to work because he has cattle," Hair said. "He wanted to change and modify the design. This was what he wanted. And so we are always happy to defer to the rancher."
The work also calls for mounting inexpensive video cameras on posts. The cameras can be monitored from home computers.
Hair said some materials and equipment and all the labor have been donated. A Phoenix home builder, Jim Campbell, has donated $100,000, bringing total donations to $380,000 since the group first put plans for building a border fence on its Web site about three weeks ago, Hair said.
There are plans to install the mesh-style fencing on a neighboring ranch within the next month, she said.
Damn vigilantes.... ;]
Yep.....God bless 'em....
Just doing the jobs that the slimy Bush administration won't do.
I don't know if you have ever seen the results of livestock
getting injured by barbed wire. Concerttina is confusing
to cattle used to straight wire or pipe fence.
Doctoring those beeves out in the desert cannot be very much fun.
Roberta Rides Again!
Ummmm... Clinton's A Liar.....
I havent seen beeves in Razor wire, but I have seen criminals in it and it aint pretty.
They better be careful putting up and wear some good protective clothing or they will get themselves cut up.
I wish them luck and hope it works.
If you want the Bush admin to do this, count on paying a lot more and waiting forever for the clowns in the union job bank to get around to doing it.
Leni
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How banal and disingenuous. It is starting to look like everyone has at least one hot-button issue that they will sell their souls for, even Freepers. It doesn't matter how many things the Prez did for this country and the hurdles he had to scale to get them done, we get one issue with hurdles that he can't get over and all of a sudden, we get so many folks showing the same disrespect for the Presidency, and a honest and honorable President, that the Klintons did to the Office and to the military. I find it obnoxious that so many use slurs like "El Presidente" or "the slimy Bush administration" with utter disregard to decency and the further damage they do as they help bolster the Dims and the MSM, which also filters down to be a boon for the terrorists. So many are acting like the welfare babies that they claim to despise - no matter how much they get, it's never enough and they'll just stomp their feet until they either get it, or end up causing such problems as to take what they have been getting away from themselves.
First of all, I do support the President in many of his endevours. Throughout my life, I have blindly followed people who I thought had my best interest at heart only to later, be stabbed in the back. The sense of frustration here can not be overlooked. If the Bush admin sells this country down the river by following an ignorant, misguided 'One World' policy, all his good deeds will be undone.
Thank you!
whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
-Declaration of Independence, 1776
It's up to the house of representatives to pump some sanity into this. The senate has clearly lost it's mind.
I guess we laugh at how the Dims suffer from "short memory syndrome" and are always howling about something that they themselves were all for just a short while ago, but we seem to suffer the same lack of memory about how much this Prez has done for us and the climate he had to operate in. How many folks even remember the very early deal with China after one of it's pilots ran into one of our planes and our folks had to perform an emergency landing on China's soil? Start there and look at all the positive things he has done, then all the whiners can wipe their runny noses and go to bed without dinner.
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