We need to build the border fence
Posted January 10th, 2008 at 10:46 AM by Jon HamMost people think we need the fence to keep job-seeking Mexican and Central Americans from entering illegally. But we may need it more to keep the Mexican police and Mexican military from participating in incursions onto our soil:
Bottom line: For fiscal year 2006 alone, there were 29 confirmed incidents along the U.S.- Mexican border involving Mexican military and/or law enforcement personnel, 17 of which involved armed Mexican government agents. Moreover, between 1996 and September 30, 2006, there were 253 confirmed incursions into the United States by Mexican government personnel.
If the American police and military were doing this in the other direction imagine the “INVASION” headlines that would appear in The New York Times and the McClatchy newspapers.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Yep. We should have a triple fence (all on our side of the border), with fences separated by ten meters of space. The first fence, closest to Mexico, would be a safety fence with signs in English and Spanish saying “US Border: DO NOT CROSS ILLEGALLY OR YOU WILL DIE”. The second fence (middle) would be electrified. Between the second and third fences, there would be landmines… that’s right, landmines. Landmines keep the North Koreans on their side of the border on the Korean peninsula, and they’d keep Mexicans on their side of the border here. In addition to the fences, we need surveillance and sensor towers to keep an eye on everything.
There is a difference between a wall to keep people in (the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall) and a wall to keep people out. We definitely need the latter.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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