johnny

SONOYTA, Sonora - A new $17 million vehicle barrier at Organ Pipe Cactus
National Monument promises to help keep out loads of illegal drugs and
immigrants along one of the U.S. border's most popular smuggling routes.

The barrier, old railroad rails buried five feet deep and welded into a
ribbon of steel, will do nothing to stop foot traffic and is designed
only to deter cars and trucks and the damage they do when they tear
across protected plants and carve rutted paths in fragile desert soil.

But agencies that manage border lands are eager to get similar barriers
for their own property, in part because the fences they have now are no
more than a hodgepodge of broken barbed wire, power poles and abandoned
cars shoved into the gaps. The new barriers are popular for another
reason, too: Agencies fear the new Organ Pipe fence will actually work,
pushing smugglers' vehicles onto their lands.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, part of the Department of Homeland
Security, is considering lining much of the roughly 1,900-mile
U.S.-Mexico border with the so-called "smart border" barriers. The
agency has not decided who should pay for it, said spokesman Mario
Villarreal in Washington, D.C.

The National Park Service isn't waiting. The agency came up with the
money for its Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, at $700,000 per mile
of barrier, after ranger Kris Eggle was shot to death there in August
2002 by a drug smuggler running from Mexican agents.

http://www.dailystar.com/star/today/31130BORDERBARRIER2frm2fgc.html
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pablito

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, part of the
Department of Homeland Security, is considering lining
much of the roughly 1,900-mile U.S.-Mexicaneer border
with the so-called "smart border" barriers. The agency has
not decided who should pay for it, said spokesman
Mario Villarreal in Washington, D.C.

Send the bill for what ever it takes to close the border
to the Mexicaneer prez, ol foxie poo , and let ol mexico
pay for the fence and whatever. If the refuse to pay ,
then start chucking mexicaneers back across the border at
the going rate...
10 mexicaneers = $1.00 in fence fees...
Won't take long before the mexicaneer government finds
it cheaper to pay for the fence.... than take care of its
people....

Actually, a 500ft cleared path, with 100 foot wide band
of nuclear waste in the middle would work. permanently
tag the criminals that make it across, and they would
make real good night targets, glowing a bit....

Pablito....

iconoclast

A tax on remittances to Mexico by the invaders would be a good start, with
an instant rebate for invaders who return to their beloved fatherland for
family reunification purposes.