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2006-07-22 |
Building fences along high-traffic areas of the U.S. border with Mexico dramatically reduces crime, the president of the Border Patrol union told Congress yesterday. "Drug smuggling was rampant" in the border area just south of San Diego, said T.J. Bonner, national president of the National Border Patrol Council, before a fence was constructed. "Anarchy reigned, and there was no semblance of control over that section of the border." Mr. Bonner said that after the fence was built, with surplus military steel landing mats, drug seizures tapered off and the crime rate fell sharply. Most Congress members at the joint hearing yesterday seemed to agree on the need for fencing, but at least one worried that it would endanger the lives of those trying to sneak into the country. "Individuals who attempt to cross the border are determined," said Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat. Of course. Cuts into his potential voters. Tall fences in high-traffic areas would force the illegal aliens deep into the desert, where they could face "starvation, rape and murder," he said. "Those who are not deterred will become increasingly dependent upon profit-minded coyotes and criminal traffickers in order to cross the border in remote areas." And those who are deterred will be in no danger at all. The hearing was part of a series of House hearings into the Senate immigration As part of Republican efforts to focus on the issue of immigration, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois will lead a delegation to the southern border this weekend. It's 110 or so in Tucson, probably another 10-15 higher out west, slight lower to the southeast. The low was 85. While in Arizona and Texas, the lawmakers will meet with members of the National Guard whom President Bush dispatched to the border, visit Camp Grip in the remote desert and travel the border at night with night-vision goggles |
Posted by:Jackal |
#5 Overweight chupacabras. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-22 20:05 |
#4 "Tall fences in high-traffic areas would force the illegal aliens deep into the desert" What's the downside? |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-22 16:06 |
#3 East of San Diego the terrain gets ugly in a hurry. South of the border is northern Baja, which has nothing east of Tijuana/Ensenada until you get to Yuma. Southeast of Yuma is the "tortured desert", in which even the Indians never lived. Northeast is the Barry M. Goldwater proving range, through which passes the infamous "Hell's trail". It is damned near impassable even in winter, and the few people there are killers. The US government hires a handful of full-blood Apaches to police the place--no questions asked. No water, no food, no roads or trails. The only ones who even try to cross there are crazy drug smugglers. Damn few make it out alive. The bottom line is that there are small corridors through which almost all the illegals pass. If you block those, only a few hundred would even attempt going overland. Not a bad drop from hundreds of thousands. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-22 14:19 |
#2 Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat Hey Eli, your mama shoulda got an abortion. |
Posted by: wxjames 2006-07-22 11:49 |
#1 Tall fences in high-traffic areas would force the illegal aliens deep into the desert.. Queue victimhood music. No one 'forces' them to do anything. They choose of their own free will. |
Posted by: Slavising Sholuting4450 2006-07-22 10:33 |