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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.

[umgud]

These people should quit worrying. Nobody’s going to build much of a fence anytime soon.

[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.