Posted on 04/01/2008 3:32:57 PM PDT by Red Steel
In Yuma, Ariz., border patrol agents tout the success of a hightriple-and double-layered wall. But such a fence is unlikely to stretch the entire border.
Yuma, Ariz. - US border patrol agent Michael Bernacke guns his SUV down the wide desert-sand road that lines the US-Mexican border through urban San Luis, Ariz.
To his right stands a steel wall, 20 feet high and reinforced by cement-filled steel piping. To his left another tall fence of steel mesh. Ten yards beyond, a shorter cyclone fence is topped with jagged concertina wire. Visible to the north, through the gauze of fencing are the homes and businesses of this growing Southwest suburbia of 22,000 people.
"This wall works," says Mr. Bernacke. "A lot of people have the misconception that it is a waste of time and money, but the numbers of apprehensions show that it works."
The triple-and double-layered fence here in Yuma is the kind of barrier that US lawmakers – and most Americans – imagined when the Secure Fence Act was enacted in 2006.
The law instructed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to secure about one-third of the 1,950-mile border between US and Mexico with 700 miles of double-layered fencing – and additionally through cameras, motion sensors, and other types of barriers – by the end of the year to stem illegal immigration.
Bankrolled by a separate $1.2 billion homeland security bill, the Secure Fence Act would, President Bush said in 2006, "make our borders more secure." By most recent estimates, nearly half a million unauthorized immigrants cross the border each year.
On the ground, though, things have turned out differently.
The DHS scaled back its ambitions early on, trimming its end-of-2008 target down to 300 miles of vehicle barrier and 370 miles of pedestrian barrier.
As of February, 302
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Meanwhile, the powers that be will declare a labor shortage emergency and legalize between three and five million new ‘workers’ each year on work visas.
Your government at work, listening to the will of the people.
We don't really have representative government anymore, and it's becoming more apparent each and every day.
Nah, can’t be. The liberals tell us it doesn’t matter, and they’re never wrong. /s
“In Yuma, Ariz., border patrol agents tout the success of a hightriple-and double-layered wall. But such a fence is unlikely to stretch the entire border.”
And that is exactly why so many of our fine politicians and others are against a serious fence - they work!
And everybody knows it.
“We don’t really have representative government anymore, and it’s becoming more apparent each and every day. “
When you realize that we have ‘nominated’ a man to be president representing a party before most of the people of this country even voted, but allow illegal aliens to vote, it’s pretty much over. We let the ballot box go and didn’t even blink. I suppose we’ll let the ammo boxes go with just as much apathy.
Good fences make good neighbors.
“Think the prisoners inside would stay there without the walls?”
Lol, and I don’t think the White House has yet taken down their fence as some have suggested, after hearing how fences don’t work anyway.
It doesn’t look good does it.
do I really have to say it???
Not for our children it doesn't. The pain is coming.
I don’t like what I see coming down the line in ten to twenty years, perhaps less. We have basicly gutted this nation over the last 15 years. Where we go from here is a very bleak consideration. With the three candidates we have left, it looks like grim.
I've been catching up on my War Between the States history. I wonder what General Lee or Jefferson Davis would think about the climate in America these days.
Two commies and a geezer. Sounds like a TV show.
I know a lot of folks like to pin the war on slavery. To me it is important to think of it in terms of what the federal government was able to force on the states. I don’t have a problem with slavery being recognized as a part of it.
Today we’re facing problems where our federal AND state governments are out of control.
When you think of what little our forefathers balked at compared to what we face today, it’s shocking what we have allowed ourselves to be subjected to.
I’m not at all convinced we aren’t talking about two commies and a commie foot-soldier. McCain for all his denials, backs a lot of stuff that would put us deeper into the socialist death grip we sinking into.
Globalism, be it international governance, open borders, the green agenda, is all the same thing, headed towards the super-state nervana. Individuals will become a part of the collective.
Borg 101
“When you think of what little our forefathers balked at compared to what we face today, it’s shocking what we have allowed ourselves to be subjected to.”
I’ve thought about that often recently. And not every colony wanted to rebel against the British. They rebelled primarily over taxes, and really just a determination to be an independent nation.
Today, this country is being transformed dramatically, in ways that about three-fourths of citizens don’t want. But the flare up during the last amnesty debate is the only time we’ve seen much protest, and that was just verbal and written.
“I’m not at all convinced we aren’t talking about two commies and a commie foot-soldier. McCain for all his denials, backs a lot of stuff that would put us deeper into the socialist death grip we sinking into.”
I’ve speculated, and just about believe, that McCain is in the Republican party for one reason, and only one reason. The Dems. have “loathed” the military since the sixties, and only pretend to respect it now because they know to do otherwise would cost them politically.
Because McCain is from (and part of) such a rich military tradition, he couldn’t stomach being a Dem. for that reason, even though he is a Democrat otherwise. But for that one reason, he just sleeps on the couch at the Republican party, but never really invests himself in it.
I agree.
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