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| Finally Getting Some Border Fences!; I guess congress feels the public's pain | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 17 2006, 01:53 PM (571 Views) | |
| teryt | May 17 2006, 01:53 PM Post #1 |
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Looks like we will get some fencing after all. Sure, they are likely only doing this as a political move in response to what some say is the biggest public outcry in decades. But, who cares!? At least something will be done (hopefully) to secure the borders better. Senate approves physical border barriers And for those that might say a border fence doesn't work, see here: USA Today - San Deigo Fence Works, but possible environmental issues
Hopefully they don't screw this up too - like putting holes in the fence so the desert tortoise or coyotes (animal version) can get through, or some other impotent measures! |
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| cmoehle | May 17 2006, 05:49 PM Post #2 |
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What, some 300 miles? What's the border, 1400? How much per foot? |
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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater | |
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| passinthru | May 17 2006, 06:02 PM Post #3 |
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More like 1952 miles; here's some more informationU.S.- Mexico border |
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| cmoehle | May 17 2006, 06:18 PM Post #4 |
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Must've gotten my number from a crow. 1952 miles, is it even possible? Gonzales in THE SITUATION ROOM
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| roscoe | May 17 2006, 06:23 PM Post #5 |
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Will there be any one way exits for those being compelled to leave.
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| feddoc | May 17 2006, 06:24 PM Post #6 |
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Hmm, might need a higher fence. http://www.amcham.ru/primetass_newswire/p396611 The Mexican Navy intends to buy Russian SU-27 fighter aircraft, Undersecretary of the Mexican Navy Admiral Armando Sanchez Moreno told the Mexican newspaper El Universal. The Mexican Navy also considered bids submitted by Russia and Sweden and decided to choose Russia's SU-27 fighters, Moreno said, according to the paper. The Mexican Navy plans to set up an air defense unit using SU-27 aircraft, Moreno said. Ivan Goncharenko, deputy general director of Russia’s government-owned military export company Rosoboronexport, confirmed Thursday talks with Mexico about the SU-27 purchase. He did not elaborate. SU-27 fighters are produced by Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker. |
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| DocInBird | May 17 2006, 06:25 PM Post #7 |
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Hmmm. Where do you think we will find cheap labor to build the fence? |
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--doc Just Doc and Orson (German Shepherd) wandering around North America. | |
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| feddoc | May 17 2006, 06:28 PM Post #8 |
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Hmmm, are you busy? |
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| cmoehle | May 17 2006, 07:27 PM Post #9 |
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Put up many more protective fences--this, quotas, tariffs and other populist barriers to free trade--and we'll all be working cheap. |
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| teryt | May 17 2006, 11:42 PM Post #10 |
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Most thoughts taken too far become absurd (but what am I really refering to?).
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| cmoehle | May 18 2006, 04:42 AM Post #11 |
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It's just I think we're shooting ourselves in the foot. |
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| TexasShadow | May 18 2006, 09:18 AM Post #12 |
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the fences will divert them to other points, making them easier to catch. (I guess) but putting them back across the line won't work unless they do it the way they did it in the 50s when they transported them into deep southern Mexico (making the walk back a lot longer) Mexico, however is probably balking at that, refusing persmission, because Mexico is dumping her peasants on us, happy to get rid of the surplus bodies. we could draft the men and send them to iraq. (not really, but it's a tempting thought) the problem as I see it is MUCH bigger than we think. it's not just mexicans coming. it's indians, chinese, africans, arabs, russians, ukranians, you name it, they're coming.... here and to Europe and Gt. Britain and Australia... to the free (and prosperous) world. Looking for a better life. And it's not something you can STOP unless you're willing to shoot them, and I'm not. The question is how to survive the inundation? |
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| campingken | May 18 2006, 12:54 PM Post #13 |
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Mexico has militarized their Southern border to keep out the folks they don't want from Honduras etc but of course it is wrong for us to do the same. The 320 Billion we have already spent on Iraq would have gone a long way towards securing our borders.We are spending the BIG BUCKS in Iraq so there just isn't enough left in the "pie" to deal with the current Southern Invasion. So what we get is a token response that makes no one happy, except maybe the "coyotes." Why not put about 50,000 troops on the border. If we keep them out in the first place then we won't have to worry about what to do with them when they get caught over here. The main purpose of a central government is to "provide for the common defense" and that isn't happening...... Ken |
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| abradf2519 | May 18 2006, 01:53 PM Post #14 |
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Easy! Guest worker program. |
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| teryt | May 18 2006, 02:48 PM Post #15 |
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Interesting . . .No stopping us Mexicans say - we'll just try harder! |
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