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| Time to Take Illegal Immigration Seriously |
| 2004-09-17 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 Say $500/ft for a fence. That comes out to $2.64 million a mile. For 1500 miles, that will come to $4 billion. Say $2 billion for first class sensors to pick up sneakers and tunnel rats. Plenty doable. I see absolutely no reason why this cannot be done. We just need the will to do it. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 4:02:13 PM |
| #5 Anymoose-I guess it would depend on what happens to those arrested. If they are freed in short order, what better money-making scheme could be designed for a "bounty hunter" and his "trespasser"? |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-09-17 3:00:11 PM |
| #4 We must secure out borders. install a fence, patrol it. Take one of those divisions in Europe, convert it to light infantry, and as training, station it in El Paso, and make it responsible for the border in that region. Same goes for a Marine unit in 29 stumps (@9 Palms training area) - they run from the coast over to where they meet up with the Army in Arizona. And assign a reserve unit (rotating) to patrol the border on the right of the position in El Paso down to the Gulf. As for the Canadian border, thats one the USAF gets, with UAVs, sensors and aerial patrols. Lock em down. We dont care about those leaving, just those getting in. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-09-17 12:57:58 PM |
| #3 Hell, the US would have leads on every non-Mexican north of D.F. Why shouldn't our efforts to stop illegal entries also include Mexicans themselves? After all, the large majority of the illegal alien problem here consists of....wait for it....Mexicans. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-17 12:39:39 PM |
| #2 BZZZZT - bad answer - we need the military on the border - all illegals stopped. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-17 12:36:21 PM |
| #1 I still think that paying Mexicans a bounty, of say, $1,000, for information leading to the arrest of any non-Mexican after they cross the border into US jurisdiction (up to $10,000 if they're really, really interesting), would make that border as airtight as a vaccum tube against non-Mexicans. Hell, the US would have leads on every non-Mexican north of D.F. Mexicans would probably be policing the Canadian border for us. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-09-17 12:26:46 PM |