US races to erect controversial steel fence on Mexican border

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Just west of El Paso ... construction crews have completed a steel fence authorities say is a new model for border security.

The five-meter (18-foot) tall fence has a mesh woven so tightly that feet and fingers cannot grab hold, but it still allows people to see through. Steel pylons are set close enough to stop a truck from bursting through, and two meters of reinforced concrete underground deters any tunneling.

The structure is designed to push would-be illegal immigrants and drug smugglers out into the desert where they are more easily caught, said Border Patrol Agent Martin Hernandez.

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The US Department of Homeland Security is racing to meet a December 31 deadline to raise 670 miles of steel fences and vehicle barriers along the 3,200 kilometer (2,000 mile) long southern border. About half has been completed, including this six kilometer (four mile) segment at New Mexico's Santa Teresa Port of Entry.

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To meet his deadline, Chertoff is using sweeping authority Congress granted in 2005 to waive 36 federal laws protecting water, air quality, endangered animals, and native American sites.

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[Mononoke28 137]

Why don't they just take all that money they're spending on this and flush it down the toilet. It's such a waste.

Diana

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

The fence idea is making me sick.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Why don't they just take all that money they're spending on this and flush it down the toilet. It's such a waste.

Diana

You don't think this design will reduce the number of entries without inspection?

The fence idea is making me sick.

Why?

[tom&tata 2]

If this works.

If not, will this be bigger than Great Wall of China? It might be able to attarct tourist

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I don't know, but the design of this thing sounds kinda cool. Steel mesh, 6 1/2 feet of underground concrete.. goddamn. Nice!

The five-meter (18-foot) tall fence has a mesh woven so tightly that feet and fingers cannot grab hold, but it still allows people to see through. Steel pylons are set close enough to stop a truck from bursting through, and two meters of reinforced concrete underground deters any tunneling.

[Amby 490]

I want pics before I decide how I feel

[Mononoke28 137]

Why don't they just take all that money they're spending on this and flush it down the toilet. It's such a waste.

Diana

You don't think this design will reduce the number of entries without inspection?

The fence idea is making me sick.

Why?

No, it'll never work. I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it. When people are living miserable lives, living in miserable conditions, watching their children starve, and see no way out of it but jump over a fence, trust me, they'll do it. They'll go over it, under it, around it, but somehow they will do it. Hunger and poverty are very powerful forces that make you do things that you thought you were not capable of doing.

So yeah, it's a waste of money.

Diana

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Why don't they just take all that money they're spending on this and flush it down the toilet. It's such a waste.

Diana

You don't think this design will reduce the number of entries without inspection?

The fence idea is making me sick.

Why?

No, it'll never work. I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it. When people are living miserable lives, living in miserable conditions, watching their children starve, and see no way out of it but jump over a fence, trust me, they'll do it. They'll go over it, under it, around it, but somehow they will do it. Hunger and poverty are very powerful forces that make you do things that you thought you were not capable of doing.

So yeah, it's a waste of money.

Diana

You're wrong. Refugee movements have been put down by brute force before.

[Mononoke28 137]

Don't understimate the power of the illegal immigrants.

Diana

[Ban Hammer 13,692]

Don't understimate the power of the illegal immigrants.

Diana

maybe an open season on them, say bag limit of 2 per day?

[Mononoke28 137]

It's been open season for a while. Haven't you seen them Minute Men aka unemployed losers sit on their trucks all day waiting for bait?

And yet, them illegals are still here.

Diana

[Ban Hammer 13,692]

It's been open season for a while. Haven't you seen them Minute Men aka unemployed losers sit on their trucks all day waiting for bait?

And yet, them illegals are still here.

Diana

maybe you misunderstood my post

[Niels Bohr 72]

I wanted to add some electrical excitement to the fence.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I wanted to add some electrical excitement to the fence.

I think there should be a force field on top of it. You touch it, you get zapped.