Posted on 09/06/2011 12:56:32 PM PDT by mdittmar
But the back side of the fence can be a real bear as this story indicates. And it's pretty easy to catch someone with a broken leg or ankle.
So Perry's quip is lame (pun intended).
I like a nice sign warning about landmines. And having actual landmines, too.
And a third, suspected illegal immigrant from China fell and broke his leg on Aug 22....
Not on both sides, of course.
Well, good grief, that fence didn’t work. Look who’s in there now!
“This can’t be true, don’t believe your lying eyes. I have it on good authority that such fences do not work. Just ran across that on a Perry thread, where Perry’s opposition to a border fence was justified for that very reason.”
Didn’t Perry say that if you build a 30-foot fence, they’ll bring a 32-foot ladder?
Seems to me a fall of 30 feet down the other side would slow down a border jumper enough to make it pretty easy for the Border Patrol to catch them, pick them up, and throw them back over the fence.
Ha!
You bad boy.
Three broken legs vs how many who scaled the wall and weren’t hurt? Wow......that’s really effective.
We need to add some more height to this thing, and increase the fall from orthopedic to neurological height.
Yup. Perry seems to have a great deal of faith in ladders and not much in fences.
I have noticed that some high security installations employ fences, so evidently they didn’t get Perry’s memo.
Maybe they could get Lee Ermey out there to motivate them over. No?
It works in many places but not along the Rio Grande.
Then what are you going to do? My uncle was the sheriff of Hudspeth County, right along the border east of El Paso. In his day there was very little movement across the border. You mostly worried about the occasional rabid dog straying over.
But today that’s all changed. Cartels are smuggling drugs and people across into Hudspeth. That border is now dangerous. If not a fence, what would you do?
But, but senor Ricardo Perry says fences don’t do nada.
The drug cartel's will tunnel and I understand the dangers but ceding the Rio Grande to the Mexicans is not something I am willing to do.
Truth be told, the actual fix for this is a mile wide demilitarized zone with a fence on their side of the Rio Grande, but of course that would mean war.
This is the article I was talking about earlier today.
Land that isn't included in the park is privately owned and water from the river is used for irrigation and livestock. You can't cut a landowner off from his only source of water.
No fence not under constant surveillance by an armed force willing to use deadly force will keep out someone determined to cross.
In a time of cuts, Texas doubled it's budget for border security.
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