"Your comment shows just how ignorant you choose to be"
"WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR, NUMB NUTS?"
Posted on 12/26/2008 4:32:42 PM PST by woofie
SANTA TERESA — Federal contractors are rushing to complete construction of the biggest barrier projects ever on New Mexico's southern border by the end of the year — nearly 90 miles of steel structures aimed at stopping vehicles and people from crossing illegally from Mexico.
.....(skip)....
contractors have nearly finished a stretch of about 49 miles pushing west from the Santa Teresa ......(skip...... 40 miles of vehicle barrier and 8.8 miles of pedestrian fence. That project is expected to be finished by the end of the month with the completion of the final two miles of the vehicle barrier.
Where the state's border with Mexico in these areas was previously marked by strands of barbed wire fence tied to scrap wood, now it largely consists of heavy X-shaped Normandy-style vehicle barriers, named after the obstacles Germans deployed on France's Normandy Beach during World War II, that stretch to the horizon.
....(skip) The cost of the fencing ranges from $1 million per mile to $5.1 million per mile depending on the type of barrier and the impediments to construction.
"It's a new era," said Jason Ackleson, a New Mexico State University government professor who has studied border security strategy. "Symbolically, it's a huge change."
The border barrier projects were authorized by the Secure Fence Act of 2006, under which Customs and Border Protection plans to complete 670 miles of fencing along the 2,000-mile-long Southwest border. ....(skip) said the agency is "confident we'll have 90 to 95 percent of it done" by the end of 2008. .......... (skip) In a controversial move, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on April 1 waived more than three dozen federal laws, including environmental provisions, to hasten construction of hundreds of miles of border barriers by the end of the year.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
Any of it show up on google earth yet?
Dear Bush haters ...The man you have decided to hate because he disagreed with you on illegal alien policy is leaving with the southern border of the US more highly fortified than ever. It was not easy but the do nothing Republicans that got thrown out did it.
Deming-based Border Patrol agents, who used to pick up scores of undocumented immigrants each day, are catching only about four a day now, said supervisory agent James Acosta.
"It's helped immensely," said agent Terrance Kranz, a Deming station field operations supervisor, of the new barriers and fences. "It gives the element of time back to the agents."
Fences abutting ports of entry prevent illegal crossers from quickly reaching residential areas where they can more easily disappear.
ping ...(you need some education)
In a measure of how much things have changed, while ranchers on New Mexico's southern border used to complain about the need for more fencing, at a meeting of a border task force in Deming on Dec. 10 ranchers raised concerns that federal contractors' trucks running to and from the border were damaging unpaved roads and that road grading has caused erosion problems.
"Good idea, bad plan," bootheel rancher William Hurt said of the border security projects.
Kranz said he considered such complaints a "sign of success."
"We've just had a lot of fence to build in a short amount of time," Kranz said.
I had no idea you could stack BS this high!!!
Your comment shows just how ignorant you choose to be
Stick it!!!
ping
"Your comment shows just how ignorant you choose to be"
"WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR, NUMB NUTS?"
Your quite right, humor comes in handy these days ...I’ll look for some
It’s not building a fence, it’s ‘stimulus’ for the economy.
you need to learn something about Mexico.
All you need to do is go to California to see how the Mexicans are looting and destroying that state. Patience. They will find you too.
So - - -both the gun sales and the fence building are seen to be in their last days, so they want to get as much done as possible before January 20th? Is that what’s making them hurry?
We seldom encounter such an erudite and well-thought-out discussion, with each word carefully considered and weighed!
The fact is that very little fence has been built, it is 99% smoke and mirrors. And a few hundred miles of invisible fence that does not work, many miles of those little railroad ties welded together, anyone are anything can walk through them.
Barrier ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Trust me. Mexicans have been more than familiar with New Mexico for hundreds of years.
Trust me. Mexicans have been more than familiar with New Mexico for hundreds of years.
////////////////
doesn’t sound like you quite approve of Fremont, Bridger Carson and the like.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.