Minutemen on the Border

[fabsroman]

Good point Billy D.

PJ,

Bush isn't doing anything about the illegal immigrants, but do you seriously think the democrats would do anything? It just might be that the solution isn't quite that easy. I am sure that there are a ton of politics involved which deal with the Latin American countries.

What I do not understand is why barely anything is made in Central America or South America. If these people are willing to work for so cheap in the US, why can't we pay them in their own country. Why are textile factories in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam and China, but I barely see anything coming from Mexico, Venezuela, etc. I would think that the transportation cost would be much lower for the corporation. One such corporation that springs to mind is Columbia. I have a lot of their gear and it is mostly made in Asia.

We are making Iraq a better place to live, so why can't we do that in these other countries around us? That way, they will want to stay where they are.

I have also tossed around taking over Mexico, and moving on after we get that under control. We need a border between us and the rest of Central America that is as tiny as possible, thereby allowing it to be monitored as easily as possible.

Several hundred years ago, the US had no problem taking land from the Indians and the Mexicans and minding its own business. Now, we are helping everybody and their mother abroad, having or soldiers killed, our economic resources wasted, and receiving nothing in return. Why is this?

[Lilred]

Billy....that's the best sayin I've heard in a good while!
And dam straight iffin that aint the truth!

[Hawkeye6]

Fabs:

Fox News did a short piece on this group tonight.

http://www.weneedafence.com/

Thought you might enjoy it.

H

[fabsroman]

That article was pretty good.

The fence that they describe sounds pretty awesome and extremely tough to tunnel under if it has a big ditch in it. With a road built between the fence, you would probably only need manned outposts every 30 or so miles because the response time would be pretty decent, at least I think it would be.

[BILLY D.]

Originally posted by Lilred
Billy....that's the best sayin I've heard in a good while!
And dam straight iffin that aint the truth!

thank you kind lady, but like i said all the credit goes to my grandfather.

[BILLY D.]

just a passing thought here, but why don't they use aircraft with side looking heat seeking radar? i was at this point going to suggest the gunships we utilized in 'nam. then i remembered we left most of them over there.

but we have bases close to the border in kalifornia, arizona, new mexico and texas. doing a thumbnail measurement of the border it is approximately 1000 miles long. taking the four states mentioned as operating locations, each base wuold have to patrol about 250 miles of border. not an insurmountable task.

at present i have no idea what aircraft we could use, i know there are some c-130's left but in my opinion the are too big and would not be cost effective. that big an aircraft would be a waste.

i would not even submit a cost estimate on a fence on the border, there would be beau coup price overuns to begin with and then some moron in washington would hire illegals to build it. doesn't sound very secure to me. the only reason the berlin wall worked somewhat was because they had guards there with shoot to kill orders. we couldn't do that because it's not politically correct. besides that the democrats need the votes. i think we should have minefields set up but that is not politically correct either. those are really cheap. why do i feel like princess di is going to throw a lightning bolt at me?

why is it we the electorate can have ideas and everyone in washington is suffering from paralysis.

don't get me wrong i don't think my ideas are the best ones but at least i'm trying. those boneheads in dc just sit there on their hands. meanwhile the problem grows and grows.