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So how does the USA plan to secure its very long land border?
originally posted by: g146541
a reply to: crazyewok
The cost would be very doable, how many billions have we already spent on killing innocent people already?
Plus it makes a hard border to guard against invasion.
I do not believe innocents would be killed however.
If you are looking to cross the border illegally, then by definition you are guilty!
All my life I have done things legally and lawfully, just to never give anyone a legitimate excuse to cage me, I wish others would take the high road as well.
Here is one case where we can make them.
originally posted by: Bassago
My plan would be double or triple heavy chain link fences with razor wire, CCTV along the whole thing, motion sensors and constant roving ICE patrols in as many numbers as needed to respond to any incursion.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: g146541
a reply to: crazyewok
The cost would be very doable, how many billions have we already spent on killing innocent people already?
Plus it makes a hard border to guard against invasion.
I do not believe innocents would be killed however.
If you are looking to cross the border illegally, then by definition you are guilty!
All my life I have done things legally and lawfully, just to never give anyone a legitimate excuse to cage me, I wish others would take the high road as well.
Here is one case where we can make them.
Well Im be brought up to view summary execution as wrong and the only time LEO should ever use lethal force is if they are threatened with a weapon.
originally posted by: MarlinGrace
a reply to: crazyewok
I think I would call the guys that did Area 51 and turn them loose on the border. Isn't it amazing when they want to secure something cost is no object and no problem. If satellites can see a license plate from space in any spectrum of light, certainly they can see someone crossing the border illegally. With American business across the border and trucks passing to deliver goods we could just build a vacuum chamber to put the truck in. Have the driver get out, suck out the air. Then the second process would be making the chamber a highly electrified box. Then stowaways would last a few days and viola', no searching necessary.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: MarlinGrace
a reply to: crazyewok
I think I would call the guys that did Area 51 and turn them loose on the border. Isn't it amazing when they want to secure something cost is no object and no problem. If satellites can see a license plate from space in any spectrum of light, certainly they can see someone crossing the border illegally. With American business across the border and trucks passing to deliver goods we could just build a vacuum chamber to put the truck in. Have the driver get out, suck out the air. Then the second process would be making the chamber a highly electrified box. Then stowaways would last a few days and viola', no searching necessary.
Technology yes could secure the borders.
But again whats the price tag?
Area 51 security likely has a very very large bill.
Would it be cost effective? I doubt it. Thats the problem price tag.
originally posted by: MarlinGrace
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: MarlinGrace
a reply to: crazyewok
I think I would call the guys that did Area 51 and turn them loose on the border. Isn't it amazing when they want to secure something cost is no object and no problem. If satellites can see a license plate from space in any spectrum of light, certainly they can see someone crossing the border illegally. With American business across the border and trucks passing to deliver goods we could just build a vacuum chamber to put the truck in. Have the driver get out, suck out the air. Then the second process would be making the chamber a highly electrified box. Then stowaways would last a few days and viola', no searching necessary.
Technology yes could secure the borders.
But again whats the price tag?
Area 51 security likely has a very very large bill.
Would it be cost effective? I doubt it. Thats the problem price tag.
Just for the current batch we have already dedicated 100's of millions, and there are already 12 million here, just killing the medical system.
Seriously if it cost a billion we would be money ahead the ROI would have to be just over a year. Oh and I don't think anything the government does is cost effective. I don't know how it is in the UK but in the US we have the market cornered on wasteful spending. We are the only country in the world that can drop a $55,000 laser guided bomb get 5,000 worth of dirt hut damage and kill the wrong people.