Work Hastens To Finish 90 Miles of Fencing(US Southern Border)

Albuquerque Journal ^ | Friday, December 26, 2008 | Rene Romo

[xcamel]

Any of it show up on google earth yet?

[woofie]

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.

[woofie]

A combination of factors, including new vehicle barriers and pedestrian fences, more Border Patrol agents, stepped-up prosecution of illegal border crossers, and a sluggish U.S. economy, have combined to drive down the number of undocumented immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents. Fewer apprehensions means fewer illegal immigrants are attempting to cross the border.

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.

[woofie]

ping ...(you need some education)

[woofie]

Over the last year, contractors have erected about 12 miles of new pedestrian fence, with sections running east and west of the Santa Teresa port of entry and on either side of the Columbus port of entry. Those projects have brought the total amount of pedestrian fence, which typically stands about 15 feet high, to about 15 miles in New Mexico, according to Customs and Border Protection.

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.

[org.whodat]

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

I had no idea you could stack BS this high!!!

[woofie]

Your comment shows just how ignorant you choose to be

[org.whodat]

Stick it!!!

[gubamyster]

ping

[Eccl 10:2]

"I had no idea you could stack BS this high!!!"

"Your comment shows just how ignorant you choose to be"

"WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR, NUMB NUTS?"

[woofie]

Your quite right, humor comes in handy these days ...I’ll look for some

[John Jorsett]

It’s not building a fence, it’s ‘stimulus’ for the economy.

[ckilmer]

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.

[RoadTest]

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?

[RoadTest]

We seldom encounter such an erudite and well-thought-out discussion, with each word carefully considered and weighed!

[org.whodat]

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.

[SwinneySwitch]

Barrier ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[csmusaret]

Trust me. Mexicans have been more than familiar with New Mexico for hundreds of years.

[ckilmer]

Trust me. Mexicans have been more than familiar with New Mexico for hundreds of years.
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doesn’t sound like you quite approve of Fremont, Bridger Carson and the like.