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National Security Border Fence Plan Riles Environmentalists
2003-12-03
Redactado para la Longitud & La diversión
Anti-Capitalists Environmentalists in California are trying to block a federal plan to build a new security fence to prevent terrorists illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States from Mexico.
‘Ole!’
The 14-mile fence would accompany an existing 40-mile fence that has been credited with causing a massive drop in illegal border crossings since its construction in 1993.
Didn’t the first 40-mile fence bother them?
Reasonable people Supporters of the fence say that the increasing number of terrorists who are at large means the United States must be even more vigilant at its borders. But environmentalists argue free movement of coyotes is more important that the construction of a fence would disrupt the local ecosystem, cause erosion problems and damage the area where the Pacific Ocean meets the scenic Tijuana River, now inhabited by buzzards rare birds and crickets insects.
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#14  Where I grew up, fenses were very rare between houses. So it wasn't until I moved away from the Northeast (US) that I heard the phrase "good fenses make good neighbors". This statement hasn't ever sat quite right for me, but these days border fences sound about right, and about time.

Same goes for Israel, times about a million.

Just like back home, you don't need to build a fence if your neighbors conduct themselves like actual human beings GOOD neighbors.
Posted by: Hyper   2003-12-3 10:35:54 PM  

#13  Well, I guess my plan to put in bouncing bettys every 10 yards is right out, then...
Posted by: mojo   2003-12-3 6:30:43 PM  

#12   George: If you're going to build a Canadian fence, 54'40 would be a good start
Naaaah, build from Massena, NY, to Ottawa, follow the Ottawa river to New Liskeard, then straight north, along the Ontario/Quebec border. Offer the Maritime Provinces the option of joining, if they so choose. Let the Quebecoise rot in hell, if they so choose, or even worse, join with France as IT slips into hell. I just hope that my Canadian friends that actually live in Quebec manage to find those new jobs they're looking for elsewhere, first.

As for Vermont, having Dean as a legal resident should constitute sufficient punishment for any manner of sins.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-12-3 3:04:36 PM  

#11  I do the environmental thing to the best of my ability - ducks unlimited, clean water groups, arbor foundation, plant trees, kill deer, all that good stuff. Still having a hard time analyzing how adding more fence hurts that paticular ecosystem. The erosion factor can be countered w/other measures. Don't see building more fence as the cancer to the ecosystem there.
Posted by: Jarhead   2003-12-3 2:09:33 PM  

#10  So exactly what is the difference between a Mexican fence and an Israeli fence? Please discuss.

George: If you're going to build a Canadian fence, 54'40 would be a good start(keep the Esquimeaux out). Also Rove thinks Vermont should be on the 'other' side of the fence, hehe!

Posted by: john   2003-12-3 1:07:35 PM  

#9   "Scenic" Tijuana River... Snicker...
Mojo - that means it hasn't caught fire... yet!
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-12-3 11:27:29 AM  

#8  "Scenic" Tijuana River...


Snicker...
Posted by: mojo   2003-12-3 11:10:33 AM  

#7  I'd sure like to know how this frickin' delicate ecosystem managed to survive millenia of natural disasters. Seems like the whole thing should have just swooned, keeled over, and died on the spot.
Posted by: BH   2003-12-3 10:45:41 AM  

#6  Now all we need is to put a several thousand mile fence alond the Canadian border. Nothing against Canadian's, but they're government is a bunch of Pro-asshats.
Posted by: Charles   2003-12-3 10:15:52 AM  

#5  Frank G:

So, now we have two reasons to put a fence up. To keep the garbage out, and the illegals too.
Posted by: Dragon Fly   2003-12-3 9:16:48 AM  

#4  The area along the border where the fence exists has a border patrol road on the US side and a no-man's land where the illegals gather on the south side. Neither is a habitat. The issue is immigration, and the lefties are, as usual, trying to use environmental concerns to stop a project they just don't want. Nothing about a second fence would be damaging to teh environment, any more than trash (empty water jugs, dirty diapers, food wrappers, foil, etc.) that the illegals ditch in the brush is....
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-3 9:14:32 AM  

#3  "Redactado para la Longitud & La diversión"
Them's fightin' werdz... I think.
Posted by: .com   2003-12-3 8:39:16 AM  

#2  Hey,environmentalists.Do the words"Bite me"hold any meaning for you?
Birds,insects will fly/crawl/tunnel over/threw/under a fence. Of course being a city boy NMM wouldn't know that.Remember folks NMM is one of those people that wants us to give-up our 4x4's.
Posted by: raptor   2003-12-3 8:33:39 AM  

#1  Hands up anyone who has ever seen a bird or an insect blocked by a fence...

And ostriches don't count, BTW.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-12-3 8:20:44 AM  

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