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2005-09-23 Home Front: WoT

Congressman wants high-tech defenses on border

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Posted by Jackal 2005-09-23 13:34|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Border security on a de facto hostiel border should be (and always will be) a military problem. The Military should be handling it. Call in civil authority to do the criminal processing, but patrolling, securing and defending the border is a function of the military. Rotate a division through on the southern border every 6 months as training for wilderness ops and LIC.

Posted by Oldspook 2005-09-23 15:12|| 2005-09-23 15:12|| Front Page Top

#2 The first solution, that counting illegals with sensors is the same as catching and returning them, is nonsense. However, the military is not really a solution, either, as border partrol is different from what an army is trained to do.

The solution is twofold. First, to channelize the illegals. This can be done with an eye to capture, or to dissuade them with harsh terrain, or both. The idea is to herd them into corridors.

Much of the border is easily "passable", but there is no destination from which to leave or to arrive on either side of the border. 50 miles of roadless rocky desert on either side in many places is impassable. The few who could manage to cross here are not worth pursuing, compared to the vast numbers who cross elsewhere.

The second solution is "immediate denial". That is, for example in Arizona, sheriff Joe Arpaio has tent cities for inmates. They are inexpensive to operate and can be set up overnight for thousands of people. All illegals who are captured are given only water, no food, and put in these tent cities on the border for not more than 48 hours before being returned to Mexico. A half dozen immigration judges on site could hear any statements or demands for refugee status from non-Mexican illegals.

All illegals would be fingerprinted, photographed and otherwise documented. First offense is immediate return. Second offense is a week in the tent city before being returned. Subsequent offenses results in longer stretches in these tent jails.

With Joe's typical ration of only cheap green bologna and trail mix, the typical illegal would seriously reconsider coming back into the US.

The objective is to keep them away from public lands and private property, towns, roads and ranches. Also to never let them get to cities in the first place.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-23 16:31|| 2005-09-23 16:31|| Front Page Top

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