A Look At The Border Fence

by France 24

The Department of Homeland Security has put up 320 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border over the past two years, and is planning to double the figure before the year's end.

First introduced in 2006, legislation that allows the construction of huge fences between US and Mexican territories has become a highly controversial issue. As the Department of Homeland Security is about to go a step further by extending the divides from California to Texas, people have started wondering about the government's real reasons for the project - and its economic and ecological consequences. Is putting up fences an effective way "to better ensure border security," or rather a means "to funnel US tax money into private accounts"?

I should have known that Dick Cheney, Haliburton, Blackwater, and the KKK were behind all this.

...the Republicans needed to get people's attention on to something else and they got this reform passed just over a month before the election as a way to maintain power. Most Democrats voted for it too - they're afraid to challenge this issue. Racist supremacists are powerful in this country, even though they're a minority. They represent the most powerful propaganda machine in the US. Building a wall is a way to increase military expenses, thereby funnelling US tax money into private accounts. The state is trying to double the military presence on the border and they'll end up resorting to private companies like Blackwater.

Jim Johnson Texas entrepreneur and operator of Border Ambassadors

Despite it's evil origins the wall is apparently working, at least in sectors where it is completed:

Border fencing is a tool used to better ensure border security and it has proved to be really effective. With a physical barrier, people attempting to gain entry into the US illegally are less inclined to do so. Almost our entire sector has fences already, whether anti-vehicular or anti-pedestrian. The government just wants to build more where needed. Within a year, the Yuma Sector has seen a 78% decrease in alien captures because of fencing and because we have more boots on the ground as well as a greater variety of technologies including cameras, censors and grand surface radars." (ed. I am assuming he meant sensors not censors. I am not sure what blocking out gratuitous nudity would have to do with stopping illegal immigrants)

Michael Bernanke Border patrol Agen

For fun go to the article and compare the views of Jim Wilkinson and Robert Garza Crosby. (Who I heard was conceived by Bing during the filming of the little known Road to Tijuana. (OK I just made that up but could you imagine Bing and Bob Hope on the Avenida Revolución, a place I am sure many in the moronosphere are familiar with.)