Border fence plans upset some in South Texas

Associated Press ^ | June 2, 2007 | LYNN BREZOSKY

[Howard Jarvis Admirer]

Good thinking, Drew - there is no reason to build expensive fences around prisons also because the fences “will get breeched over and over again” and prisoners will still sneak out through tunnels or “through legitimate transit points.”

While you are at it, you might want to remove the alarm system from your car and house, as well as the door locks and windows, after all, burglars will simply be breaking in when you are not there, so why have it anyway? You will save a lot of money not having to replace broken door locks when everything in your house is ripped off - probably by illegals. LOL!

[VR-21]

"I just fail to see where a multi-billion dollar fence along hundreds of miles of border will accomplish anything. It will get breeched over and over again and illegals will still sneak in through legitimate transit points."

I basically agree with everything you say Drew, But I feel the same frustration most of the others do about the way open borders advocates thwart any attempt to do anything in the interests of our country. While the "jobs and welfare" approach you suggest is far and away the most effective way to deal with the problem, a physical barrier constructed in the faces of our open borders crooks and creeps, and the oligarchs of that overflowing cesspool to our south would be worth the cost if only for the relief it would give to the frustration of me and others

[ontap]

BS! Tell them if they want cheap Mexican labor to move their damn company to Mexico!

[VR-21]

"Any of these local officials want to complain can request that the fence go on their north side."

Outstanding! That would be almost like justice.

[Viking2002]

That gap in the center concerns me. I say, dredge it and fill it with gators.

[hdstmf]

The fencing and related security controls are an initial step. Many other methods must be used to solve the basic problem of illegal immigration.

[YellowRoseofTx]

...a fence they say will cut farmers off from water, harm wildlife, ruin recreational areas and send a hostile message to Mexico

If the fence is on the Texas/Mexico line, how does that cut farmers off from water, harm wildlife or ruin recreational areas? Sending a hostile message to Mexico doesn't hurt my feelings one tiny bit.

[Everydayiwritethebook]

Being from Texas, I don’t see how the fence would bother any legitimate crossers-over. There are lots of places along the border to legally enter and leave the USA. It takes a few minutes and a show of identity, period. At worst, they’ll search you or your car.

AFAIK, animals don’t cross the border often. LOL

[skepsel]

Why don’t we hire the folks that built the old DDR border emplacements? Those guys knew how to build a fence!

Watch towers with machine guns, raked sand death strips, attack dogs running free between fences, minefields, preregistered artillery, tank traps, dragon’s teeth, charges that fired vertically along the fences if touched.

They don’t seem to have been overly concerned about private property either.

Just blowing off steam friend, I’m sick of all the wrangling myself, I wish they’d show a seriousness of purpose and quit allowing all the filibustering and salami slicing designed to delay and impede the fence project.

[deport]

If the fence is on the Texas/Mexico line, how does that cut farmers off from water, harm wildlife or ruin recreational areas?

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I don’t know the exact boundary line nor the proposed location of the fence.. But if the boundary is the middle of the Rio Grande river then my guess is the fence will be built inland some distance thus cutting off animals, etc from access to the water for drinking, etc. and I'm not sure how it would impact farmers/ranchers etc on water rights.

My guess is eminent domain will come into play for land along the fence line. There is an eminent domain bill on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature now that will bring land owners more rights in the takings process.

[Sun]

Israel wonders why anyone in our country would not want to build a fence. It helped them tremendously.

[TLI]

If the fence is on the Texas/Mexico line, how does that cut farmers off from water, harm wildlife or ruin recreational areas?

Been there, seen where an average example of the fence would go, it is IBWC land that does not belong to the farmers anyway and the "wildlife" most affected will be the border "coyotes." No one needs access to the actual river. The water from the river is NOT bailed out by hand as the enviro-wacks would have it appear, it is pumped out via underground pipe systems and in many locations in Texas it would help keep out the tick infested mexican cattle.

And if there is an area that requires a fence the only "recreation" going on around there is stemming from the drug smugglers.

In short, they are “full of it.”