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2016-04-25 Home Front: WoT

IS Anti-Tunnel System Could Put End To Smugglers, Migrants From Mexico

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-25 02:21|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 $120 million in research grant seed money? Unless we can appropriate ten times that amount with flexible cost overrun language, we'll never get Lockheed Martin or Boeing to bite.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-25 02:33|| 2016-04-25 02:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Sometimes, when I read news like this, I get the feeling that:
(a) Somebody in DC read Microcosmic God.
(b) They didn't read it to the end.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-25 03:46|| 2016-04-25 03:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The US Mexico border is much bigger and for much of it they have no plans to put up a fence.

Posted by BernardZ 2016-04-25 04:11|| 2016-04-25 04:11|| Front Page Top

An 'all of the above' systems approach is needed. The successful Aerostat program should be expanded, ground sensors, drones, foot and mounted patrols, U2, SAT downlinks, along with Anti-Tunnel technology should all be integrated.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-25 04:23|| 2016-04-25 04:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Or, you can just make employing illegals a felony and enforce it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-25 04:53|| 2016-04-25 04:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I am sure some people 'look the other way' when employing folks. But my employer has thousands of Spanish-speakers on their payroll and I assure you - every single one of them has the necessary ID required by the Feds.

I did overhear the Company side of a conversation about a fella who shared a Social Security number with his cousin.

We also need to find and prosecute those making a profit from importing illegal aliens.

Posted by Bobby 2016-04-25 07:32|| 2016-04-25 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 grom has a good point

E-verify, which was created by and is supported by the US Govt. is an effective system to identify which employees are legal. It is used by a lot of employers. Of course the system is not perfect (e.g., when people change their names after marriage).

However a lot of employers don't use it and in fact there are some barriers to its use. For example, California State Govt passed a low a few years ago prohibiting the use of E-verify in many cases. Illinois has fought tooth and nail against the use of E-verify/ The ACLU has also fought E-evirfy

Posted by lord garth 2016-04-25 08:22|| 2016-04-25 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 This all assumes the Regime wants to stop illegal immigration. Between future Dem voters and cheap labor for the Chamber of Commerce, our betters are getting what they want now

Posted by Frank G 2016-04-25 08:48|| 2016-04-25 08:48|| Front Page Top

#9 At least twenty years ago the Pentagon was trumpeting the success of an anti-tunneling breakthrough that had virtually eliminated such activity between North and South Korea. Today, archaeologists use devices that penetrate rock to discover empty spaces. The fact that the science has existed for some time, doesn't this really demonstrate that the Obama administration has lacked the will to halt the drug and people-smugglers who cross our border? Just kick the can down the road for another three years?

Posted by Phairt Barnsmell9169 2016-04-25 09:48|| 2016-04-25 09:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Re#1: IF L-M were to get that tunneling contract, they would at least have a hole for dumping the F-35 money into.

Probably will get as much flight time from the tunnel as the Lightning.
(If Kelly Johnson were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-04-25 15:50|| 2016-04-25 15:50|| Front Page Top

#11 It is not a matter of technology. It is that the US political class does not have the willpower to apply it, and the population continues to re-elect them.

Posted by Glens Shirong8156 2016-04-25 18:58|| 2016-04-25 18:58|| Front Page Top

#12 I am sure the USA will begin insuring these tunnels as to not get sued by illegals during collapse.

Posted by Airandee 2016-04-25 19:28|| 2016-04-25 19:28|| Front Page Top

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