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originally posted by: iplay1up2
originally posted by: rickymouse
nothing an electric fence charger can't correct. Those high voltage ones make your hair stand up on your arm and will jump across a wet sweaty rubber glove
It can be set up to monitor a fence being cut with modern technology and motion sensing cameras and someone can be there within ten minutes to fix the problematic people.
Really, High Voltage? On all 2000 miles of trumps proposed wall? How much do you think that would add to the cost? Also with Modern technology, and motion sensing cameras, why do we need a wall?
originally posted by: pikestaff
The Isrealie concrete walls have stopped, by Isrealie reckoning, 1,000 bombings of varioues types per year, since they were put up, perhaps America should copy the Isrealie type walls ?
originally posted by: JimNasium
a reply to: Byrd
What is funny but in a sad sense, is the folks making excuses for that CLOWN!! and ONLY because now Donny (dwerp dwerp) is waving the R⢠flag...
Watch some old Apprentice⢠tapes for crying out LOUD!!! or when Drumpf BOASTED about giving MILLIONS to Democrats⢠through the years...
WAKIE WAKIE
originally posted by: JimNasium
a reply to: Byrd
What is funny but in a sad sense, is the folks making excuses for that CLOWN!! and ONLY because now Donny (dwerp dwerp) is waving the R⢠flag...
Watch some old Apprentice⢠tapes for crying out LOUD!!! or when Drumpf BOASTED about giving MILLIONS to Democrats⢠through the years...
WAKIE WAKIE
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Byrd
something that isn't being considered is that if someone is standing at the wall and having to saw through it, it delays their entry into the US. If we patrol the border, then that delay could increase the chances of us catching them prior to their entry.
If you are looking for perfect solutions, i'd redirect your attention to the rest of governance as well. When I discuss ACA and how terrible it is, i am continually told it was the best that we could come up with. No, not perfect. And in that case, i'd assume you find it acceptable?
All i ask you apply the same standards when evaluating your politics.
originally posted by: CornishCeltGuy
a reply to: Byrd
If I was Trump I'd pull the 35,000 troops out of Germany and have them on active duty on the border.
No luxury camps with McDonald's sitting on their asses in a German base doing nothing, actually in the field in tents, working and patrolling.
35,000 troops working 12 hour shifts equates to roughly 9 service people guarding every mile at any given time.
The waste of money with US troops in Germany is nuts. Putin isn't invading anytime soon, he needs the EU to buy his natural gas, and most of Russian dirty money is tied up in London.
I'd have those troops back in the US guarding the border on 6 month deployments, not getting drunk in German bars and doing nothing but drill and guard duty at the base.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Byrd
something that isn't being considered is that if someone is standing at the wall and having to saw through it, it delays their entry into the US. If we patrol the border, then that delay could increase the chances of us catching them prior to their entry.
If you are looking for perfect solutions, i'd redirect your attention to the rest of governance as well. When I discuss ACA and how terrible it is, i am continually told it was the best that we could come up with. No, not perfect. And in that case, i'd assume you find it acceptable?
All i ask you apply the same standards when evaluating your politics.
The concept of a wall is a boondoggle. I'm for making it easier for groups to come in and leave (because the jobs they're taking, like farm labor, are not ones we Americans seem to want as a career) - coupled with harsher penalties for companies that hire illegals. I'm for adding border security stations (I've been to the border many times and have seen the patrols there) and for putting in a fleet of drones.
I feel that this is more quickly implemented, more easily upgraded (when we get better capable drones, they can be replaced), provides for a faster response, is cheaper, does not require taking away property from people, does not hinder legal visits in border towns, and makes a permanent work force instead of the "build a wall construction crew" which goes away once the wall is done. It also addresses the issue of areas of the terrain where it's extremely difficult to build a wall (along the canyon rims -- like near Del Rio) and doesn't hamper tourism (all the fishing near Del Rio along the Rio Grande plus tourists going to see the rock art near Curly Tailed Panther, etc, etc.)
I can't speak for other states but I can speak for my state, and I know that near Del Rio, Big Bend, Lajitas, etc that the environment is fragile and there's a lot there that should not be damaged or constructed over.
originally posted by: rickymouse
nothing an electric fence charger can't correct. Those high voltage ones make your hair stand up on your arm and will jump across a wet sweaty rubber glove
It can be set up to monitor a fence being cut with modern technology and motion sensing cameras and someone can be there within ten minutes to fix the problematic people.
âBoth require the wall to [be] sunk at least six feet into the ground and include 25- and 50-foot automated gates for pedestrians and vehicles. The proposed wall must also be built in such a way that it would take at least an hour to cut through it with a âsledgehammer, car jack, pickaxe, chisel, battery operated impact tools, battery operated cutting tools, Oxy/acetylene torch or other similar hand-held tools.â
Operational requirements are the capabilities and products identified by the government as essential to a project, and which any prospective bidder must be able to fulfill. Oversight bodies found that CBP skipped some important steps in identifying SBInet requirements, such as establishing the scope of the program, acquisition strategy, and technological standards. âSBInet clearly illustrates that poorly defined and documented operational requirementsâŚresults in missed milestones and waste resources,â the IG stated in its report. âCBPâs missteps with SBInetâs planning should be a reminder of the importance of proper planning of major acquisitions and that acquisition controls should not be bypassed.â