[Baladas]

I'm sure they do want to have the time and date publicized, then they can lobby the meeetings to stop the fence some more. The fence is using federal money, why let a border town banker reconquista wannabe have any say?

[Sybeck1]

Is there a map of where it will go?

[atomicpossum]

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

[sionnsar]

[AFPhys]

Sheesh...

A local government can use “eminent domain” to rip homes down to get a high-tax paying mall built, but the Federal Government is not able to use that power to get a security fence for America built?

Something wrong here...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I have a novel idea.

Why not JUST PUT THE F*ING FENCE ON THE F*ING BORDER, and tell these yahoos to STFU!

There. I feel better now.

[Drew68]

I'm sorry, but 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.

Illegals will stop sneaking in when there are no jobs to be had or welfare benefits to receive. Nail the employers who hire them with draconian fines and prison sentences. It is really that simple! Illegals come here because people hire them and people hire them because they have no fear of any prosecution for doing so!

[Liberty Valance]

[kcvl]

Guerra is president of International Bank of Commerce. He is a native of South Texas and is married to Edna Rodriguez Guerra.

[TLI]

But John McClung, president of the Texas Produce Association who attended a separate fence meeting Friday between landowners and the Border Patrol, said agents rolled out maps of private property marked with lines showing exactly where the fence was being considered. The lines were drawn on the levees, which can be as much as 1 1/2 miles inland from the Rio Grande.

DUH, the levee is the primary patrol road that parallels the river. If you don’t put the fence near the PATROL ROAD you will not see the border bunnies trying to hop over the fence!

Also, this strikes me as being a matter of National Security and they are damn lucky to see any maps at all. Since the flood plane (between the river and the levee) and the levee are NOT part of the land belonging to the landowners, it belongs to the International Boundary and Water Commission, they do not have to tell them squat! They could just put the fence anywhere they damn well please.

[BigFinn]

From all I have been reading... this 700 miles of fence has been whittled to less than 200 miles. And with the Dems in control of Congress and our ‘mulit-nationalist’ President pushing for and American EU, what left of fence building will become a pile of sticks. It’s all been trumped by ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ doncha know.

[potlatch]

[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.

[Sun]

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