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Finally Getting Some Border Fences!; I guess congress feels the public's pain
Topic Started: May 17 2006, 01:53 PM (572 Views)
teryt
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Populist or not, I think it's a good idea. Just makes good business sense to me too - if you had someone breaking into your house, what would you do?

Perhaps we should annex their house! LOL (think about that in business merger terms)
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well, the fence could end up more trouble than it's worth if the mexicans make it an act of war and knock it down or drive a truck through it, etc.

but, if they don't do that, then it will divert immigrants to different points of entry, which, in theory, should make it easier to catch them.

but the real problem is what to do with them when you catch them.
putting them back across the border a couple miles from their entry point is stupid.
they just get a good nights sleep and do it again the next day.
and, it appears that the courts aren't prosecuting the smugglers, just letting them go, so the border patrolmen naturally feel like they're wasting their time and energy chasing and catching anyone.

in the fifties, we did an airlift, flying them down to the guatemalan border to release them, but I'd bet lots of $$ that Fox won't allow that. He wants them to come up here, earn $$ and send it back home.
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teryt
May 27 2006, 02:00 PM
Populist or not, I think it's a good idea. Just makes good business sense to me too - if you had someone breaking into your house, what would you do?

Perhaps we should annex their house! LOL (think about that in business merger terms)

Who is breaking into my house?


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Who is breaking into my house?


chris, just because no one is breaking into YOUR house doesn't mean it isn't happening to your fellow americans. and it is happening, everyday.
my uncle has to use log chains on his icebox and pantry to keep them from stealing and making a mess in his ranchhouse kitchen. he doesn't bother to lock the doors on the place anymore, because they just break a window and go in anyway. they cut fences and nothing makes a rancher madder than having to go sort out his cattle from the neighbor's herd.
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And just because it is happening in this or that instance doesn't mean it is pervasive, no?
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And just because it is happening in this or that instance doesn't mean it is pervasive, no?


no, but my uncle isn't the only one. just ask any rancher whose place is within 50 miles of the border from here to CA and see what answer you get.
you know (or maybe you don't) how protective texas ranchers are about their ranches, not liking any intrusions at all, but they let the border patrol go in and make roads so they could patrol...what does that tell you?
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