Posted on 10/01/2007 3:39:54 AM PDT by Man50D
The fastest way to cut crime in the United States is to build a border fence with Mexico, according to U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and a candidate for the GOP nomination for president.
Hunter told WND in an exclusive question-and-answer session that when a section of his version of the border fence was finished in San Diego, crime in that city dropped by half.
He was responding to a WND question about his perspective on the status of illegal aliens in the United States, and what should the U.S. do?
"I get to answer the last part of that by talking about that I have committed that I will build the border fence that I wrote into law in six months. Last Oct. 26 the president signed my bill, the bill that I wrote that mandates 854 miles of San Diego style border fence. That's the fence I built in San Diego, Calif. Double layer fence with a Border Patrol road in between," he said.
"The extension of that fence for 854 miles across the smuggling corridors of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California will be a priority, and that, incidentally, will be one of my first initiatives as president. That, I think, will have a salutary effect on illegal immigration problem, as well as the crime problem in this country," he said.
"When we built that border fence the crime rate in the city of San Diego dropped by 50 percent. I think the crime rate will drop in every state of the union upon completion of the border fence," he said.
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I recall President Bush saying much the same thing when he was pushing his amnesty b.s. deal.
Well we do have a hundred miles or so built after 5 years.
Great job there North American Union hacks.
Hes get our vote.
The Israeli fence is good. But the Israeli concrete wall with towers is better.
Ducan needs a new campaign manager, I never see or hear from the guy and he’s my man!
He's the guy I am voting for in the primaries, but I think he has about a snowball's chance as of current.
I want to see him as Defense or Homeland secretary under Thompson, if not VP.
anyone can climb over a concrete wall if they really want. It’s the 2 layers of barbed wire that is the real deterrent. The middle fence is for sensor tracking. There’s no such thing as a fence that is “set it and forget it”....this will be an ongoing cost.
In Israel some sections are concrete to prevent snipers from shooting down at Israelis.
Something like that would motivate me to vote in the general, I can tell you that..As of current, the “suspect” lineup for the GOP ticket doesn’t look promising and I am tired of doing the “voting for lesser evil” thing..
Good points you make.
It's done a great job of cutting down illegals crossing, drugs crossing, and from that, it's cut down oncrime in the area.
Thompson is a member of the Council that is pushing the invasion.
I’d gladly vote for Hunter for President, but I can’t see him winning. Thompson will win the candidacy and general elections.
This is what most of our southern border looks like: there is no government-built fence at all. There is often just whatever is left over from some forgotten cattle fence, built privately to keep U.S. cattle from wandering freely into Mexico. For hundreds of miles there is not even a broken cattle fence, there is nothing at all.
For comparison, below the broken cattle fence photo is a sample of an inexpensive but highly effective double border fence system, with a plowed strip to reveal footprints. This type of system is very cheap and can be built with great speed.
Here is what some of San Diego County has: a wall made of rusty Viet Nam-era runway mats. The corrugations are even horizontal, (to make climbing easier?)
Here is what the border looks like where the runway mat wall exists. Mexico begins on the other side of the ineffective rusty wall, which actually helps the smugglers, by hiding their movements until the occasional USBP vehicle has driven out of sight.
This is how "the game" is played. Smugglers hide on the other side of the wall with their dope and/or their illegals, out of sight of the USBP. They wait for the highly visible white BP vehicle to drive over the distant hills. Lookouts with cell phones and walkie-talkies report on the current locations of the BP units. They know with certainty that "the coast is clear" for an hour or two, and the smugglers and illegals hop the fence and run into the scrub only 50 yards away. From there, they are out of sight, and they walk 1-2 miles to holding houses. Then they wait for nightfall, and are picked up and driven in vans to LA or San Diego.
Next, we see 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.
Right on, Duncan Hunter! He and Tom Tancredo are the only ones that get it on this issue.
Then the invasion will continue and we will dissapear as a nation.
it is effective though it has to be across the whole border. what illegals do is go around the whole desert
see
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5323928
warning npr barf alert
according to what you wrote, a fence is better than a concrete wall because you can see through it and anticipate potential crossing attempts in advance
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