Actually, there is a very good historical reason for radiation detectors on the Mexican border.

When I was a college student in University of Texas El-Paso in the late 1980′s, a pair of Mexican scrap dealers improperly bought bought an American X-ray machine, took it to Ciudad Juarez, and cut up the machine *to include the radioactive power source* for the scrap metal value.

The scrap was used in Mexican steel rebar.

What happened was not learned until some of that radioactive steel rebar showed up in Los Alamos and set off the radiation detectors at the front gate.

The Federal Government “Get Smart” cone of silence was dropped on the Media in El Paso, but it made the national news elsewhere.

I learned why there were all the low flying helicopters flying grid patterns over El Paso from my folks via telephone when they called asking what was going on.

Both scrap dealers got fatally large doses of radiation and the last I heard at the time was that both were hospitalized.

21st century progress there folks.

Complete misquote and out of context. What a surprise. What I wrote was:”United States – Private Property. Trespassers will be shot”. This would be a warning to ANYONE who would break the law. Nowhere does it say to go after someone’s family, and Nowhere does it say to go after immigrants. ILLEGAL immigrants are a totally different thing from immigrants, and it is responses like yours that have lead me to the point I am at now – ZERO tolerance.

Agreed. However, that is just one prong. Unfortunately, most of these countries have been and always will be corrupt. It is their culture. The answer lies in making it difficult to live in the US illegally. Dry up the magnets that draws and keeps them here and allow attrition to occur. No anchor babies, no jobs, no entitlements of any sort, and no hope of citizenship ever. And this must be performed without question. With no reason to come or stay the problem will be solve itself. Will take 5-10 years but it is the correct solution. With this, no need to spend $B’s on a physical fence or hire 1M more BP. It relieves the pressure on the BP patrols as they would know the folks crossing are not workers, but have nefarious reasons. Then shoot to kill after 1 warning must be the mantra. We need more boots on the border but that is to stop those who wish us harm only.

And my real point in the post was to say we need to stop allowing these libs to shut us down with their “for the children” and “compassion for fellow humans” nonsense. They can call me names. So what. Names wan’t harm me, but an invasion force of illegals will. Finally, half or more of those now crossing illegally are criminals coming here to take advantage of our relatively weak criminal sentencing and lucrative $. Not for jobs as libs wnat us to beleive. Look at the growth of violent gangs.

TMoney, if the perpetrators of an attack here were British or German or French, lie so many muslim extremists are, would you destroy them. Didnt think so.

did we destroy saudi arabia? didn’t think so. hard to believe us dumb amerikkkans are smart enough to know the difference between countries that support terrorism, and those that do not, but we do.

And bobjones, very classy of you to throw mexicans and muslims in with the drugs, suitcase nukes and diseases.

so who smuggles the drugs? are you saying thats a job mexicans wouldn’t do, so only americans do it?

as far as diseases, well how do they come here? do they just magically float across the border?

and who would want to bring a nuke into this country?? I know, some crusader!! couldn’t be a muslim jihadist, could it? of course not, ‘jihad’ is all about a personal struggle with sin..sure.

CCGuy said:
They’re just doing the nuclear smuggling that we “lazy Americans” won’t do.

fantastic.