Posted on 05/25/2020 12:41:07 PM PDT by BeauBo
I want ICE & the Border Patrol to put undercover people into Western Union & other cash transfer location & bust the illegals.
“Used to camp there as a kid. Not now.”
After next year, you will only have to worry about bears, snakes and the landowner.
This “Wall System” is a real game changer. As a combined package of mutually supporting capabilities (impedance, detection, tracking and response capability), it is designed to achieve full operational control of the border, where it goes in.
So far, it is proving to work as well or better than the designs were shooting for.
The wall gets put up, then what’s next.
Obstacle’s every step of the way. Clean up the bureaucracy and purge all the anti-border types in all their forms. Pass new laws and make sure everything is enforceable.
Audit all of DHS.
Immigration moratorium
Mass deportations
Tax all remittances
If Sleepy Joe wins... open borders.
I love the painting it black!
L8r
“If they get just through the approved built this year it will be a huge step forward.”
The pareto principle applies to the Southern Border - 80% of the illegal traffic crosses though only 20% of the mileage of the border, and pretty much always has (the border cities, and the Rio Grande Valley, a few trails and rivers).
So the top 400 miles of the priority list, covers (actually more than) 80% of historical illegal traffic.
Beyond those well worn routes, there are feasible, but less favorable alternative routes, that must be blocked, or traffic will simply divert.
But when we start getting 700 miles down the priority list, the nature of the alternative routes remaining becomes significantly qualitatively more difficult. No more will it be like sprinting across a street or a football field, and hopping a fence through a backyard, or like an hours stroll through the park. Instead the nature of the crossing will become more like a marathon, or worse - walking all day, and spending the night sleeping rough. Not something that a lot of the population is really up for.
The “disappearing time”, during which detected intruders can still be tracked, goes from minutes up to many hours, or a day or more. Out there, reliable detection, tracking and interception capability count for much more, than the few additional minutes required to employ a ladder and rope. It is a different kind of a contest.
Barrier is really needed in urbanized environments and to stop vehicles. In remote areas, technology and response capability (road access, riverine and aerial assets) are more important than barrier.
Great report.
BTTT.
Yep! Excellent thought...
Certainly a fitting concept... For all her aggregation, she gets entombed with aggregate...
Nice Work!
Just noticed something significant in this week’s Border Wall Update.
74 miles moved from pre-construction, to the under construction category, from the week before.
That is a really big jump by historical standards, and nothing I saw in the press explains all that.
The Government seem to have stopped issuing press releases about contract awards and groundbreakings this month - but they seem to be occurring even faster than before. It also looks like contractors have gotten the word to not publicize their awards or groundbreakings. This massive swell is occurring under the radar of the public and press (focused on coronavirus).
Judging by these reported numbers (and knowing that the largest amount of money ever available for Border Wall contracting, has now been on account long enough for the contracting process to make awards), it appears that an unprecedented tsunami is building - a real sea change in the scale of the effort.
I did see last week (May 19) that Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) tweeted:
“The first panels were installed yesterday on a 25-mile new border wall system project in Naco and Douglas, AZ.”
But it would seem that a total of 49 more miles started work somewhere else last week as well, to add up to 74 new miles under construction. With no fanfare at all. I checked the official sites and searched the news every day.
Lately, weekly developments have been on the order of what were annual developments, during 2017 and 2018.
This is going to be epic!
Nice. Thanks for the note.
Excellent.
Maybe tape off a section in her honor, a kind of SW Wailing Wall?
Western union may be hurting this year. American’s first to satisfy the now 12% or whatever unemployment is, enforced, going to keep a lot of illegals poor. And with a wall, and stricter re-entry requirements on both sides of the border, harder to sashay back home with the cash on Fridays.
Another impetus for increased construction is election season and GDP numbers for Arizona, a battleground state with low teens electoral votes, a Senate race, and a flippable House seat.
Infrastructure dollars spent on AZ border wall pumps up state taxes, both individual and corporate. Have to assume all concrete is made and trucked instate and the steel railed in from TX.
Trump, NRSC, NRCC need TX and AZ big time in November. Holding contract money does no good. It needs to be spent to affect GDP and employment.
Less crime has to be reported on as well.
Building at Trump Speed.
Trump did a recent EO to cut more regulations and red tape. Producing jobs in any way possible in the private sector is job one.
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