Border Fence Nearly Doubles to 145 Miles
AnAmericanCitizen
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-border29sep29,0,6565480.story?coll=la-home-center
From the Los Angeles Times
Border fence nearly doubles
After reporting sluggish progress last month, U.S. officials announce that the
stretch of barriers has grown to 145 miles.
By Richard Marosi
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 29, 2007
SAN LUIS, Ariz. — The federal government's border fencing effort has accelerated
rapidly in recent weeks with barriers rising in towns from California to New Mexico
and workers completing the longest stretch of continuous fencing on the U.S.-Mexico
frontier.
The Department of Homeland Security reached its goal of completing 70 miles of new
fencing by the end of this month, nearly doubling the length of barriers on the
border to about 145 miles.
"When we make a commitment, we will carry through on the commitment," said Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who went to Arizona on Friday to mark the
progress and welded part of the fence in the town of Douglas.
Whether the new fencing slows illegal immigration remains to be seen, but the project
is a milestone in another way. Once limited mainly to cities, fencing along the
1,952-mile border is now going up in rural areas, where much of the illegal
immigration traffic has shifted in recent years.
Fleets of tractor-trailers loaded with fence posts and steel tubing have been
crossing remote highways and deserts. Crews of National Guard troops spend hours
welding raw materials under tarps. In some areas, contractors are installing the
barriers at a pace of about half a mile per day.
A line of towering steel now slices for about 32 miles through a sea of sand from San
Luis to the Tinajas Altas mountains. The fence, built to prevent incursions on the
Barry M. Goldwater Range, is now the longest on the border, more than twice as long
as the 14-mile fence separating San Diego from Tijuana.
"This is going to be a rude awakening for the crowds [of immigrants] that come in the
fall," said Welby Redwine, a Boeing Co. engineer overseeing work in a canyon
crisscrossed by smuggling trails in the Tinajas Altas mountains, 40 miles from the
nearest town. "When they see it they're going to say, 'Wow, what happened?' "
In the vast Altar Valley, where hundreds of immigrants have died of dehydration over
the years trying to reach Tucson 70 miles away, a 15-foot-high steel-tube fence is
rising. Authorities hope the fence can slow the busiest illegal immigration corridor
in the country, where more than 1 million people have crossed in recent years.
In Calexico, Calif., the same style of fencing will block a 7-mile stretch where
smugglers have had easy access to launch boats across the All American Canal into
California.
Other fencing has been built in the Arizona border towns of Naco and Douglas, and in
Columbus, N.M.
And the government plans to break ground in coming months on new projects from
California to Texas.
The progress marks an abrupt turnaround from one month ago, when the Homeland
Security Department reported having completed only 15 of the 70 miles promised by
Sept. 30, drawing criticism from many Republicans and activists against illegal
immigration.
The Secure Fence Act, which President Bush signed into law last fall, called for 700
miles of new fencing. The administration set a goal of completing nearly 300 miles by
the end of 2008.
The project got off to a slow start because of environmental assessments, land
acquisition and fencing design that had to be completed before the start of
construction, officials said.
The recent rapid pace of fence construction has been welcome news to federal border
officials whose broader security plan -- called the Secure Border Initiative -- has
experienced setbacks in recent weeks.
An Arizona project to line the border with camera towers as part of a high-tech
"virtual fence" is behind schedule. Chertoff has suspended funding to project
overseer Boeing Co. until progress is made.
New barriers have had an effect in San Luis, once one of the busiest crossing points
in the nation. Immigrants by the hundreds would jump over the steel-mat fencing and
disappear into nearby neighborhoods.
That route is now blocked by two new layers of fencing: a 15-foot-high steel-mesh
secondary barrier and a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.
The number of illegal immigrants apprehended daily in the area has dropped from 800
to as low as 15, according to Border Patrol officials.
Border experts say it is too soon to determine the overall success or failure of the
effort, pointing out that previous fencing projects, most notably in San Diego,
shifted immigrant traffic elsewhere.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar, in an interview in San Diego, said the
plan to complete about 225 more miles of fencing next year would anticipate shifts in
immigration patterns, much of it controlled by smuggling rings. "For the first time,"
Aguilar said, "we're getting ahead of where the criminal organizations are going to
go."
Iconoclast
"AnAmericanCitizen" <NoAm...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-border29sep29,0,6565480.story?coll=la-home-center
>
> From the Los Angeles Times
> Border fence nearly doubles
>
> After reporting sluggish progress last month, U.S. officials announce that
> the
> stretch of barriers has grown to 145 miles.
> By Richard Marosi
> Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
>
> September 29, 2007
>
And how long has Mexican puppet David Aguilar been in charge of the Border
Patrol?
Doug
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>> shifted immigrant traffic elsewhere.
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>> U.S. Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar, in an interview in San Diego,
>> said the
>> plan to complete about 225 more miles of fencing next year would
>> anticipate shifts in
>> immigration patterns, much of it controlled by smuggling rings. "For the
>> first time,"
>> Aguilar said, "we're getting ahead of where the criminal organizations
>> are going to
>> go."
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> And how long has Mexican puppet David Aguilar been in charge of the Border
> Patrol?
>
My brother, who is in law enforcement, says the Border Patrol is corrupt
from top to bottom. David will make sure the right people (i.e. the ones who
have paid him) have no problems getting across the US-mexico border.
Iconoclast
"Doug" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I believe it. And ICE will release or be too busy to arrest and detain
illegals who have paid mordida to ICE officials.
bountyhunterblues
> "Doug" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> >>> shifted immigrant traffic elsewhere.
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> >>> U.S. Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar, in an interview in San Diego,
> >>> said the
> >>> plan to complete about 225 more miles of fencing next year would
> >>> anticipate shifts in
> >>> immigration patterns, much of it controlled by smuggling rings. "For the
> >>> first time,"
> >>> Aguilar said, "we're getting ahead of where the criminal organizations
> >>> are going to
> >>> go."
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> >> And how long has Mexican puppet David Aguilar been in charge of the
> >> Border Patrol?
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> > My brother, who is in law enforcement, says the Border Patrol is corrupt
> > from top to bottom. David will make sure the right people (i.e. the ones
> > who
> > have paid him) have no problems getting across the US-mexico border.
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> I believe it. And ICE will release or be too busy to arrest and detain
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Do any of you think this will change (mordida) with many soldiers
joining the ranks of ICE and Border Patrol upon their return from
Afganistan and Iraq?
If they actually get the JLENS and RAID system up and running, it will
at least let us watch them on TV.
Christopher Helms
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-border29sep29,0,...
>
> From the Los Angeles Times
> Border fence nearly doubles
>
> After reporting sluggish progress last month, U.S. officials announce that the
> stretch of barriers has grown to 145 miles.
> By Richard Marosi
> Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
>
> September 29, 2007
>
> rapidly in recent weeks with barriers rising in towns from California to New Mexico
> and workers completing the longest stretch of continuous fencing on the U.S.-Mexico
> frontier.
>
> The Department of Homeland Security reached its goal of completing 70 miles of new
> fencing by the end of this month, nearly doubling the length of barriers on the
> border to about 145 miles.
>
> "When we make a commitment, we will carry through on the commitment," said Homeland
> Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who went to Arizona on Friday to mark the
> progress and welded part of the fence in the town of Douglas.
>
> Whether the new fencing slows illegal immigration remains to be seen, but the project
> is a milestone in another way. Once limited mainly to cities, fencing along the
> 1,952-mile border is now going up in rural areas, where much of the illegal
> immigration traffic has shifted in recent years.
I don't know if it's appropriate for us to keep referring to those
people as "illegal immigrants." The term is too respectable. They're
more like a flood of Squatters.
Iconoclast
"Christopher Helms" <Chrish...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Isn't it tragic how the Hispanic vote has resulted in open borders,
incessant and unrelenting discussion of amnesties, and a government that now
bases practically all policy decisions on the wishes of Hispanics? Hispanic
voters want more Hispanics from Latin America allowed in without any
consideration for our environment, urban sprawl, energy use, water
shortages, air pollution, crime, disintigration of our culture, sovereignty,
rule of law, or the considerations of any other ethnic groups. We now have
massive problems with identity theft, crime, and the Balkinization of our
nation as a result of the Republican and Democratic parties catering to
every whim of La Raza. PROP 187 was right and should have been passed and
California governor Pete Wilson should have been seen as a national hero
instead of the demonized figure who alienated criminal illegal aliens in Los
Angeles. We no longer need a "national immigration debate," instead we need
to address the national catastrophe that minority rule by Hispanics has
wrought on our once proud nation and what we can do to reverse the damage
that has been done by this misguided policy.
Iconoclast
alt.politics.immigration
www.rescuewithoutborders.org
Iconoclast
"bountyhunterblues" <buz...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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The better and smarter soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq who wish
to remain in military-like jobs will probably seek the higher paying
positions with Blackwater Security or similar public/private contractors
rather than seek the relatively low paying positions within the BP, IMO.
The large Hispanic presence in the Border Patrol virtually guarantees that
it will become as corrupt as the Mexican police, military, and government
is, IMO.
We need to stop electing trial lawyers and wealthy businessmen into elected
office if we're going to clean up the corruption in government and agencies
like ICE. We need a leader of the moral caliber of President Teddy
Roosevelt or Ike Eisenhour to clean up the filth. Vladimer Putin has gone a
long way to eliminate the graft and corruption in Russia that Yeltzin
allowed to creep in -- and we need a strong leader, preferably with a
military background who would go after the Joe Nachios, Ken Lays, Scooter
Libbys and the oligarchy that now controls America.
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> If they actually get the JLENS and RAID system up and running, it will
> at least let us watch them on TV.
>
The problem with that is that the actions of only a handful of "racist"
agents ends up on the evening news and is immediately exploited by race card
players to demonize an entire law enforcement organization. Remember that
video of some white cops in South Africa sicking police dogs on some Black
carjackers a few years ago? The cops allowed a BBC correspondent to make a
video of the police brutality. That one tape ended up on CNN, the BBC, and
other news broadcasts and resulted in the end of the careers of many good
and decent white police officers in the South African police departments who
had nothing to do with police brutality or racism. Already we see our own
news media playing grainy videos of some poor Border Patrol agent accused of
shooting an illegal entrant who is threatening the agent with a gun or rocks
or molotov cocktails and the burden of proof of "innocence" is placed on the
BP agent. We have Hispanic groups, the Mexican government, the media, and
politicians portraying Border Patrol agents as Gestapo storm troopers and
thugs. We are seeing the downfall of the United States right before our
eyes as we become a corrupt, Latin American police state.
bountyhunterblues
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If we had Gestapo tactics on the border, those who tried to cross
would still be rotting on the ground as a sign for those who followed.
I have not seen that yet, so lets remind people how bad Nazi's really
were, and compared to them and most other countries we are one of the
best out there, if not the best.
I was discussing Blankwater with Amb. Wilson (ret.) and I will post
more on that later.
Me
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>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-border29sep29,0,6565480.story?coll=la-home-center
>
>From the Los Angeles Times
>Border fence nearly doubles
>
>After reporting sluggish progress last month, U.S. officials announce that the
>stretch of barriers has grown to 145 miles.
>By Richard Marosi
>Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
>
>September 29, 2007
>
>SAN LUIS, Ariz. — The federal government's border fencing effort has accelerated
>rapidly in recent weeks with barriers rising in towns from California to New Mexico
>and workers completing the longest stretch of continuous fencing on the U.S.-Mexico
>frontier.
>
>The Department of Homeland Security reached its goal of completing 70 miles of new
>fencing by the end of this month, nearly doubling the length of barriers on the
>border to about 145 miles.
>
145 down, 1,000 to go.
I suppose a fence is better than nothing, but what's really needed are
50,000 marines with orders to shoot any fukking Mexicunt sneaking
across the border. Leave the corpses to rot in the sun as a warning to
other Mexicunts.