28 Mile Virtual Fence is Rising Along the Border [Over Budget, Behind Schedule]

The New York Times ^ | June 21, 2007 | Randal C. Archibold

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!

U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121

U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121

White House comments: (202) 456-1111

Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep

Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[indcons]

Meanwhile, India Seals Itself Off From Bangladesh: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856265/posts

“In a construction project that will eventually reach across 2,050 miles, hundreds of rivers and long stretches of forests and fields, India has been quietly sealing itself off from Bangladesh, its [radical Islamic] neighbor. Sections totaling about 1,550 miles have been built the past seven years.”

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Thats makes the boarder a virtual boarder, and virtually no Mexicans cross our virtual boarder.

Makes me virtually happy.

I want my fence and our laws enforced.

[Leisler]

Most people who support President Bush, the Senate and the amnesty bill, live in private, gated, guarded communities. They live in apartments and co-ops with full time doormen and guards. They work in offices requiring passes to enter and have lobby guards.

But, of course to these ‘class’ of people, the fence does not work.

[glorgau]

Virtual fence = Virtual security

[Diogenesis]

[SmoothTalker]

Virtual fence! Hah. Like we will actually send the agents to pick most of these people up. Nothing developed yet tops a good old fashioned fence. Drones and cameras don’t stop people from coming in. Combine the two and they will be effective. Leave it virtual and it won’t matter.

[Sybeck1]

Virtual fence = Boondoggle

[kabar]

60% sneak over the border. 40% from visa overstays. That said, more than a million a year are CAUGHT at the border.

[Travis McGee]

Virtual fences for virtual idiots. Eyewash to gull the rubes.

Note that there is not only a "virtual fence" around the Whitehouse, but a huge iron fence, and plenty of armed guards.

Here is the Duncan Hunter 15' fence, which is already being built along a few "showplace" miles of San Diego, mainly near the ports of entry, where panderng politicians can conveniently show it off to gullible reporters. As you can see, the rusty runway wall is seen at the left side, Mexico begins on the other side. In areas with the 15 foot fence, dope smugglers and illegals will have to cross the open sand ("the government road" as it is called) before starting to try to get over the 15 foot fence.

This new fence is extremely tough, and resists cutting. Attacking the fence would have to be done right out in the open, in full view of cameras. This type of fence, on the U.S. side of the government road, will give the USBP a barrier to patrol, instead of forcing them to chase illegals around 100,000 square miles of wide-open frontier land, which is a fool's errand. Everywhere this modern multiple fence system has been built, crossings by illegals drop to almost nil.

This ain't rocket science, folks. We're not talking about something like the Hoover Dam project, (which we managed to build 70 years ago). The world's last superpower, which put a man on the moon 35 years ago, can build a couple thousand miles of simple and effective fencing.

This is how it's being built in San Diego county, along the last 14 miles out to the ocean. The total cost of the entire fence from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific would be about 5 billion dollars, or what we spend medicating, hospitalizing, educating, and incarcerating illegal aliens just about every month. In other words, the fence would pay for itself immediately.

Or, we can continue our current policy.

[Travis McGee]

That said, more than a million a year are CAUGHT at the border.That doesn't mean they give up and go home. It's widely estimated that border crossers have an 80% success rate. If caught, they are returned to the border to try again. After one or two more tries, they are almost sure to make it in. Many coyotes today don't even get paid up front, but only on delivery to the USA. That's why they are taken to "clown houses" full of illegals. That's where relatives or friends already in the USA have to "bail them out." The coyotes are paid upon successful delivery, that's how confident they are.

[kabar]

Agreed. There is no real penalty to pay if you get caught. Just try again.

[Travis McGee]

If an illegal has the bad luck to be caught twice, his combined probability of success by the third try is on the order of 99%.

[Daffynition]