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| Minutemen: Build the fence, or we will |
| 2006-04-20 |
| Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will. Simcox said Wednesday that he's sending an ultimatum to the president, through the media, of course — "You can't get through to the president any other way" — to deploy military reserves and the National Guard to the Arizona border by May 25. Or, Simcox said, by the Memorial Day weekend Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers and supporters will break ground to start erecting fencing privately. "We have had landowners approach," Simcox said in an interview. "We've been working on this idea for a while. We're going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise." Simcox said a half-dozen landowners along the Arizona-Mexico border have said they will allow fencing to be placed on their borderlands, and others in California, Texas and New Mexico have agreed to do so as well. "Certainly, as with everything else, we're only able to cover a small portion of the border," Simcox said. "The state and federal government have bought up most of the land around the border. I suspect that's why we'll never get control of the border." But he said the plan is to put up secure fencing that truly will be an effective deterrent, and to show how easily it can be accomplished. Simcox gave this description of the envisioned barrier-and-fencing complex: Start with a 6-foot deep trench so a vehicle can't crash through; behind it, a roll of concertina (coiled, razor-edged barbed wire) in front of a 15-foot high heavy-gauge steel mesh fence angled outward at the top. Behind the fence will be a 60- to 70-foot wide unpaved but graded dirt road Simcox said those involved in the planning hope to keep costs to between $125 and $150 a foot. I'll go in for 3' or so. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #9 I'd bet it's interpreted as a violation of the Logan Act and various zoning and environmental ordinances. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-04-20 20:03 |
| #8 i would be more than glad too help work on the fence along side real AMERICNA |
| Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-04-20 20:01 |
| #7 It's definitely humiliating to the admin and that's what's needed to reverse their blind eyes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-20 19:40 |
| #6 The IRS better rule this tax deductible. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-20 19:11 |
| #5 I just dropped in $25.00 (my PayPal account is low right now), and bookmarked their site for future payments. Build it! |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-04-20 17:41 |
| #4 I'm amazed this didn't happen years ago. The farmers along the border who get their fields trampled could have gotten together, gone on O'Reilly, gotten donations of time and money. Built a trench and then fences to protect their land. The end result is the illegals would be channeled into corridors that would be easier to watch and patrol. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-04-20 16:28 |
| #3 Cliclk here" |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-04-20 12:20 |
| #2 I'll buy 5'. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-04-20 12:18 |
| #1 This is a great idea, fencing along the highest-trafficked areas. It will force the illegals to either concentrate or to use land that is much harder to cross, often with no roads on either side. The results should also be impressive, perhaps crossing a threshold resulting in a major drop in the sheer number of illegals. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-04-20 10:36 |