Excellent article – thanks for sharing!…

In short, a species of Gator that would be doing the job most politicians don’t want to do.

duhh, so put in a couple of manned exit portals.

One senator suggested hiring 20 contractors to put in 40 miles of fence each and finishing in less than six months.

There’s an answer to every whine. Lets just do it!

The 40 miles of single fencing put up on the border in San Diego reduced
illegal migration over 90% and as an added bonus crime went down more than 50%.

Let’s stop trying to contradict reality and demand and demand that the government do it’s job.

Fax, phone, email and write our Reps until they get the message and let the fence industry worry about the details of building it, that’s what they’re getting paid for.

It works at prisons, it works at the Whitehouse, it works in Israel, it works everywhere it’s tried.

A high security fence will work where the potential trespassers and escapees and terrorists are dangerous enough so you can shoot them, but this isn’t practical for plain old Mexicans. About all they would face for breaking down the fences would be the usual free ride back to Mexico. Not to mention there are areas where fence building is impractical, or that if denied the border crossing they can spend a trifle more on coyotes and come up the coast or through Canada.

I would go so far as to say a fence is a total waste of money.

The only practical answer is to put a few businessmen in jail for hiring illegals, but since both parties are pretty much bought by business and corporations, this is far-fetched.

The ‘fence’ is merely a ruse for rubes and another boondoggle for Halliburton.

Let me clear, I think a fence would be useful for some portions, but some people wouldn’t be satisfied with that. They want a solid wall the entire length of the border, and they want it right now, and I understand the frustration. But I think a lot of people envision this as a straight line across flat desert owned by nobody, when it’s anything but that. There are issues of property rights and water rights that will be very messy to solve, and the terrain in some areas is very difficult. One of the original proposed routes puts the fence right through a university. Any of you ever rafted through Santa Elena Canyon or hiked in Boquillas Canyon?

Yes, we CAN technically build anything, Hoover Dam etc etc. I’m just trying to explain to you why, IF it ever gets done, it will take a long, long time to accomplish. Frankly, a solid border-length barrier, especially a concrete one, will never happen because of the economic havoc it would wreak by depriving an entire region of it’s water rights. People won’t stand for it.

Largest concrete dam in North America, largest concrete structure in the United States with 11,975,521 yd³ (9,155,94 2 m³) of concrete used.

Mathematicians, how high a wall along our southern border would that much concrete build?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway

If a group of (yes, our Military) who for the most part were not experienced or engineers could accomplish such a feat back then, WHY can we not build a simple fence today?

Rhetorically, he says, because open borders/globalist W does NOT want to and has so instructed his toady lettuce-head Chertoff to go slow or do nothing at all.