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Home » Homeland Security » What, no blimps?

What, no blimps?

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Want to secure your bor­ders? Heres a state of the art model to look at:
– First, a razor wire fence;
– Then a road for vehi­cle patrols;
– Another fence that sends out an alarm when it is cut;
– A 400 foot gap cov­ered with motion sen­sors and night vision cam­eras (the Soviets had a sim­i­lar strip along their west­ern bor­der, which they would rake every morn­ing and then have patrols look for foot­prints dur­ing the day — of course, they also used mines);
– Finally, another fence with more sen­sors.

This is what Israel plans to put around Gaza after its with­drawal, to pre­vent infil­tra­tion by ter­ror­ists. The cost is about $2.3 mil­lion per mile. For the 2000-​​plus mile U.S. south­ern bor­der, the cost of this would get close to $5 bil­lion, and the cost would more than dou­ble for a sim­i­lar sys­tem on the longer north­ern bor­der.
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The Border Patrol Service (part of DHS) has been increased in size sev­eral times since 2001, but the steady growth in the num­ber of patrols and sen­sors has not stopped the flow of immi­grants (and its worth ask­ing whether it best serves the national inter­est to stop immi­grants com­ing to the U.S. for eco­nomic rea­sons, as opposed to block­ing ille­gal cross­ings by ter­ror­ists and crim­i­nals).
A high tech for­ti­fied bor­der might cost too much even for the U.S., sug­gest­ing that in this case, a solu­tion is likely to require com­ing up with bet­ter immi­gra­tion rules rather rely­ing only on more patrollers and a tech­no­log­i­cal fix.

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  1. Repasky says:
    July 29, 2005 at 5:31 pm

    I had rec­om­mended when HomelAND SECURITY was first ini­ti­ated to use the German Zepplin, it is highly manu­ver­able, has a large pas­sen­ger com­part­ment
    for elec­tronic capa­bil­ity, can stay up for 24 hours, and does not require a large ground crew for land­ing, One man only, this has been oper­a­tional for years, presently used to haul pas­sen­gers, and has passed all flight test and approvals. This could be leased for test­ing, and hold down cost. no need to come up with some thing new and go through devel­ope­ment cost.

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  2. jlunn says:
    July 29, 2005 at 7:46 pm

    The ques­tion is, how do you block ille­gal cross­ings by ter­ror­ists and crim­i­nals while at the same time allow­ing eco­nomic immi­grants into the coun­try? Suppose we cre­ated a process by which eco­nomic immi­grants could enter our coun­try in a “secure” man­ner. We still have the prob­lem (and expense) of secur­ing the bor­der from ter­ror­ists and criminals.

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  3. tbrosz says:
    July 30, 2005 at 5:55 pm

    Be sure to bal­ance the $5 bil­lion against what ille­gal immi­gra­tion costs the states and the Federal gov­ern­ment every year. What would the main­te­nance cost of such a bar­rier be?

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  4. Matter says:
    July 31, 2005 at 1:28 pm

    Folks, just because what we’re doing now fails as a pol­icy does not mean we should resort to the eas­i­est and cheap­est fix.
    It’s ille­gal immi­gra­tion and there IS a solu­tion. Looking at only the pos­i­tives for what the ille­gal immi­grants bring is insin­cere debate. There IS a cost and I’m tired of pay­ing it.

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  5. Dino Tori says:
    July 31, 2005 at 9:32 pm

    GTE’/Sanswire — the future of air ships. There is no doubt that we need air ships for numer­ous rea­sons. When per­fected we will won­der why we didn‘t have them sooner.

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  6. Dino Tori says:
    July 31, 2005 at 9:36 pm

    Last post GTE GlobeTel Communications Corp (AMEX: GTE)http://www.globetel.net/

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  7. Ron B says:
    August 1, 2005 at 2:23 am

    Everyone men­tions cost. But what cost is there? Human lives, dol­lars to build, or REbuild every­thing NORTH of wet­back junc­tion. How much time do we have before American cities are bombed,like Hiroshima.
    I taught TQL,where we are trained to LOOK AHEAD. Anticipate what­ever maybe com­ming our way. But our present polit­i­cal lead­er­ship has been taught Political Correctness,curtesy of Gramsky,Hitler and Clinton. This is OUR gov­ern­ment, SPEAK UP to ALL lev­els of buracracy. Speak pub­li­cally. Speak to those dear to you,into ACTION.
    Our biggest fault, is that we rest on our lau­rels, which in hind­sight looks alot like our EGOS. Rust and evil never rest. Neither should WE. VIGILENCE ACTION SURVIVAL

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  8. Dino Tori says:
    August 1, 2005 at 7:38 am

    RE Post by: Pagan Date:7/31/2005 12:36:57 PM
    Post #of 13930 IHUB board
    Interesting FactSheet from Space and Missile Defense Command on High Altitude Airships. This may have been posted before, but it does bol­ster the the­ory of Military involve­ment in the Stratellite.
    http://​www​.smdc​.army​.mil/​F​a​c​t​S​h​e​e​t​s​/​H​A​A​.​pdf
    Here’s a quote from a December 14. 2004 Globetel press release that also empha­sizes SMDC’s desire for involve­ment in the Stratellite design and build process.
    Sanswire has been con­tacted by the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) which expressed its desire to be involved in the shar­ing of tech­nol­ogy and infor­ma­tion as well as pos­si­ble involve­ment in the devel­op­ment of the Stratellite. In addi­tion to the com­mer­cial appli­ca­tions being devel­oped by GTEL, the SMDC sees sev­eral mil­i­tary intel­li­gence gath­er­ing and oper­a­tional appli­ca­tions for Stratellite-​​type sys­tems.
    Stewart Stout, a mem­ber of the SMDC, stated, The Army is inter­ested in this type of capa­bil­ity. We would like to start an inter­change of ideas and tech­nolo­gies for stratos­pheric air­ships. Technologies like the Stratellite can be used for numer­ous mil­i­tary appli­ca­tions such as a bat­tle­field resource, bor­der con­trol and sur­veil­lance, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and home­land secu­rity. We look for­ward to attend­ing the conference.

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  9. The Cenobyte says:
    August 1, 2005 at 1:59 pm

    I don’t under­stand why this has to all be done. Just a fence with razor wire at the top would slow the flow quite a bit and if at the same time you built a lit­tle dirt road with it you could drive back and forth up and down the boarder and catch those guys climing the fence much of the time. 200 trucks mov­ing back and forth on a 200 mile road would mean you need to get over the fence and out of site in less than 10 or 15 min­utes if you are lucky.
    2.3 mil­lion a mile seems way over the top in over all cost when I sus­pect that for $100k or less a mile you could have road and fence which is 90% of the prob­lem right there.

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  10. Matter says:
    August 1, 2005 at 2:45 pm

    Oh, there’s def­i­nitely a work­able solu­tion out there but the prob­lem is com­mit­ment to exe­cu­tion. We have to chal­lenge the PC baloney that says you can’t stop ille­gal immi­gra­tion.
    I say AGAIN: it’s ILLEGAL immi­gra­tion, folks. We cer­tainly need immi­gra­tion for our country’s growth but allow­ing oth­ers to dic­tate to us what they’re going to do is des­tined to fail.

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  11. Dino Tori says:
    August 2, 2005 at 9:53 pm

    cenobyte, you wrote, 2.3 mil­lion a mile seems way over the top in over all cost when I sus­pect that for $100k or less a mile you could have road and fence which is 90% of the prob­lem right there. What do you know about con­struc­tion of roads and fences and main­tan­ing and guard­ing them? to me sounds like you don‘t know too much.

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  12. David Gustafson says:
    August 2, 2005 at 11:47 pm

    We had an ille­gal alien amnesty in 1986.The U.S.does NOT need another one in the future.A law should be passed to elim­i­nate auto­matic cit­i­zen­ship for babies of ille­gal aliens who are born in the U.S..This would help to elim­i­nate “chain immi­gra­tion” in the future in the U.S..We need mor Department of Homeland Security agents to find and deport the 10 to 12 mil­lion ille­gals that are already in the U.S.

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  13. Neil Reinhardt says:
    August 3, 2005 at 12:46 am

    LOOK, we have to SEAL the bor­ders as much as pos­si­ble as there are a whole shit load of peo­ple out there WHO WANT TO KILL EVERYONE IN THE US!
    That is EVERYONE! It includes YOU, your loved ones, friends, EVERYONE!
    AND IF THEY CAN, THEY WILL!
    Or don’t some of you have a clue?
    So the cost is not the fac­tor, get­ting
    your head out of your tail is.
    From some of the idiot com­ments here, it seems some do not!

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  14. MIke "retired" SF says:
    August 3, 2005 at 8:24 am

    The US needs to stop let­ting the Hispanic groups dic­tate our for­eign pol­icy. Our politi­cians are so eager for their votes that they will sell our chil­drens future to get those vote.
    “Affirmative active” was put in place to help the minori­ties in the US get equal place­ment in the social and eco­nomic stand­ing of the coun­try.
    We need this same type of action on immi­gra­tion. Right now Hispanics are 90% of the ille­gal and almost 90% of the legal immi­grants. It is because of their racist/​ethnist desire that their own ethic groups be placed above all oth­ers in the US that we are at this point now.
    My wife is from Asia, and is always asked by the
    few friends of hers that are actu­ally allowed to visit us, why America prefers spanish-​​speakers so much more than them. An affir­ma­tive action plan for imi­gra­tion would cer­tainly be a wake up call for the immi­gra­tion com­mu­nity.
    Also, Ireland a years or so ago elim­i­nated the pol­icy of “if you are born here, you are a cit­i­zen”. they changed it to “if you are born here legally and of a citizen”…Every other coun­try in Western Europe already had that policy.…So, when do we get the same pol­icy, and join the rest of the first world coun­tries?
    One last note. If we as a coutry start severely pun­ish­ing the com­pa­nies that use ille­gals, both mon­e­tar­ily and with prison time, they might start to see the ben­e­fit of using amer­i­cans for the labor. Sure, food prices might go up a few pen­nies, and the com­pa­nies might make a lit­tle less profit, but a bet­ter bal­ance in the coun­try will be acheived. If you think the farms will come to a stop if the ille­gals are blocked, you are naive. I live in an area with a high con­cen­tra­tion of migrant work­ers. The major­ity of the migrant work­ers are Americans. But, they have to com­pete with the ille­gals for the jobs at the farms. While the Americans spend their money here, much of the money earned by the ille­gals is sent to Mexico, where it helps their econ­omy, not ours.

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  15. M. Hester says:
    August 3, 2005 at 8:34 am

    ILLEGAL Immigration!
    That means we have laws in place mak­ing this a crime.
    We also have rules and reg­u­la­tion defin­ing LEGAL immi­gra­tion.
    The indi­vid­ual has a choice whether to enter the USA legally or ILLEGALLY! If they choose the lat­ter then they are crim­i­nals. If a change in the law is needed it shouldn’t be to improve legal immi­gra­tion but instead to make it legal to shoot ILLEGAL immi­grants.
    Question: If some­one came into your home ille­gally would you ignore them???

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  16. Duane says:
    August 3, 2005 at 8:53 am

    I think one thing we need to imple­ment now, while we’re debat­ing on how to rid our­selves of the prob­lem of ille­gal immi­gra­tion, is a national sales tax. Can I get an Amen? At least with a national sales tax we could tap into that ‘tax free’ money the ille­gals are mak­ing under the table. Sure, our cost of liv­ing would rise a bit, but so would their cost of liv­ing… and their income would be taxed every­time they went to the stores. Why not let them help pay for bor­der patrols, fences, and all the wel­fare they’re sap­ping from tax pay­ing American cit­i­zens while they’re here illegally?

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  17. chumby sixtysix says:
    August 3, 2005 at 10:22 am

    Why even play with this. If we plainly put it out that because of ter­ror­ism threats no immi­gra­tion will be allowed. If you try to take the chance dur­ing these times …expect to be fired upon and the most likely thing that will hap­pen is the flys will con­sume your corpse. Plain and sim­ple rule. Do not try to cross our bor­ders ille­gally right now, you will be shot. If you cross legally we will see you at the check point at which time you can go through the reg­u­lar screen­ing and either be accepted or denied. DO NOT CROSS with­out a visa. No Exceptions Allowed. We will not ask ques­tions first. If you are in the boundry ille­gally you WILL be shot.
    A 13 cent bul­let is much cheaper way to assure our bor­ders are NOT crossed and there are plenty of flys down there to con­sume the bod­ies within a mat­ter of a cou­ple weeks Im sure. Dam I sound kinda rot­ten this morn­ing but the USA needs to take care of it’s own before any oth­ers !!
    Maybe I need another cup of cof­fee but I don’t think I will change my mind any­way lol

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  18. Graf says:
    August 3, 2005 at 10:55 am

    We are putting the cork on the wrong side: Round up ille­gals; ID each one of them up to and includ­ing DNA; return them to where they come from; put a $5K per head cost on each one of them (first time) send the bill to Senor Fox; he wont pay, put a tar­riff on any and all goods from Mexico. Second time make it $10K and etc. Fox will seal that bor­der tomor­row, else the pace of com­pa­nies flee­ing Mexico for Asia will increase, and he will have a wide spread rev­o­lu­tion on his grimy hands. Put the bur­den on the clowns encour­ag­ing ille­gal immi­gra­tion, includ­ing employ­ers in the US.

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  19. obrett13 says:
    August 3, 2005 at 11:14 am

    In regards to:Posted by: Jerry at August 3, 2005 03:52 AM
    this has to be one of the most moronic ego­tis­ti­cal demo­c­ra­tic obsen­i­ties I think I ever heard!
    Impeach Bush??? ok fella take some Ridlin, your way over the top! The peo­ple in south­ern states are liv­ing in “hell”? ok say they are…make a choice move the “F” out! Maybe call the police per­haps? I mean damn… maybe there is an issue with immi­gra­tion, but damn, impeach pres­i­dent for try­ing to pro­tect us all? you say he has faults, you dont? How about the fella your so proud of, for­mer Pres​.Mr Clinton(not that Im against a good blow job)? I take it your not Military any­way, or ya wouldnt be talk­ing about your com­man­der in chief this way to start with! mat­ter of fact… just leave move south to Harlingen Tx and by your­self han­dle the mex­i­can ter­ror­ists by ya self. Terrorists… these peo­ple migrate to texas and beyond because they havent the means in their coun­try to work as effec­tivly as they do in this country…so we give “work visas”. If you lived in Texas maybe you would acknowl­edged the fact that alot of “Texans” (and oth­ers) have hired them out on a hourly or daily basis for work because the legal day labor­ers that are here cost the “Texans” liv­ing in it so damn much no one can afford any­thing but these 4 dol­lar an hour laborers.

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  20. ME and only ME says:
    August 3, 2005 at 11:19 am

    Its pretty funny how all the gun fanat­ics want to shoot at “ille­gal immi­grants” but I see them using it as another way for them to try to use the law to carry out their racists acts. I dont agree with the flow of ille­gals com­ing into the US but to shoot them. It was ok when other than Mexicans came to this coun­try but now that we see there num­bers grow it scares many peo­ple. Lets use that excuse that they take jobs, well there are jobs for them because Americans are too lazy to take those jobs offered to ille­gals. We should have done that when the Irish, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Native Americans, wait they have already been shot at and killed. Lets us our heads here and be civ­i­lized Christians instead of murderers.

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  21. obrett13 says:
    August 3, 2005 at 11:41 am

    OK back to real­ity! I know hav­ing day labor­ers fro Mexico isnt the best thing to do… but when our “help” here charges 15 bucks an hour to pick “berries” as some­one men­tioned, peo­ple look for dif­fer­ent areas to pay for such help or in all look for dif­fer­ent labor­ers… cor­rect me if Im wrong. Again not try­ing to say the ille­gals are a good thing, hell I was raised on a farm we had/​have plenty immi­grants work­ing for us. Because they worked for less and with more pride in their work… show me a hom­less guy or a minor­ity of true legal­ity in this nation that would do the same… the ETHICS are dif­fer­ent with these peo­ple. Yes they send money home…our money, agreed I dont like it, but… BUT I need to make a liv­ing too!
    Find me an alter­na­tive and Im all over it… Fact of the mat­ter for our mex­i­can ille­gals is that they work! and they do it cheaply! wanna dicuss the issue of wel­fare? I would hire them in a sec­ond if they would actu­ally show up! Americans have got­ten lazy! A free buck is ez to make not ez to earn! Sorry for the offen­sive­ness I have por­trayed for other fel­low Texans pos­si­bly.
    I am Bi par­ti­san btw…may the least Fuct up can­di­date win! I sup­port my Commander in Chief regard­less untill he steps out of office!

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  22. Ross E says:
    August 3, 2005 at 6:30 pm

    After perus­ing the com­ments and doing some of my own research, I’ve come to some con­clu­sions and opin­ions about the whole bor­der and immi­gra­tion issue. I’ll detail them as fol­lows:
    1. I can­not deny what many oth­ers have said about ille­gal immi­grants cross­ing our bor­ders. Illegal immi­gra­tion is just that, ILLEGAL. Since the law specif­i­cally states the do’s and don’ts regard­ing immi­gra­tion to this coun­try, it should be pretty sim­ple that the law should be enforced.
    2. Being a vet­eran of the U.S. Army, I have expe­ri­enced a HUGE wastage of materiel and man­power at some of our home bases here in the States. Soldiers “train” for a style of war­fare that has long since been rel­e­gated to the Cold War era. I have seen tanks, armored per­son­nel car­ri­ers, vehi­cles, etc. sit­ting in huge motor pools do noth­ing but leak­ing oil and requir­ing con­stant main­te­nance. Why not put these troops and materiel to good use and have them patrol our bor­ders; NOT to shoot ille­gals or per­pe­trate attroc­i­ties against for­eign­ers because we don’t want them here, but to PROTECT our bor­ders from those who wish to hurt our cit­i­zens, our prop­erty, and our way of life. Our mil­i­tary is being wasted, in my opin­ion, while they are “state­side”, by a pol­icy that pur­ports to train them for war, but does not give them any “real world” mis­sions to give them expe­ri­ence. It’s a waste of man­power, a waste of time and, most impor­tantly, a waste of pre­cious tax-​​payer dol­lars.
    3. In this day and age of tech­no­log­i­cal wiz­ardry, the abil­ity of our mil­i­tary to respond to global threats is unsur­passed and unprecen­dented. I harken back to a time when the United States was engaged in a pol­icy of Isolationism. While I do not insin­u­ate that we should just drop every­thing and pull all our troops home, I do sup­port a pol­icy of grad­ual with­drawal from the World Stage, inso­much as we con­tinue to sup­port our allies if/​when they need us, but that we start forc­ing them to “foot the bill” for the UN instead of hav­ing most UN mis­sions become a 90% American sup­ported affair. The lack of BILLION dol­lar expen­di­tures on ques­tion­able for­eign poli­cies might just help to off­set new immi­gra­tion polices and steps to pro­tect our bor­ders.
    4. Reverse the deci­sion to sup­port NAFTA, and regain some ground for American com­pa­nies try­ing to com­pete with for­eign ones. Read this arti­cle: http://​www​.cit​i​zen​.org/​t​r​a​d​e​/​n​a​f​ta/
    It explains the details of what NAFTA was thought to be, and what it has become. It’s a per­fect exam­ple of what has hap­pened since we’ve become “numb” to what Congress does in our absence.
    These are just a few of the opin­ions and things I’ve for­mu­lated after research­ing this issue on the ‘net. It’s inter­est­ing what you can find and learn when you do a lit­tle surfing.

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  23. Price says:
    August 3, 2005 at 8:46 pm

    Ok some of you who have wrote your com­ments on here must not think well. Or are just plain dumb. it dont mat­ter what we do, if some­one wants in the US bad enough, they will find a way or die try­ing. And Using a fence about 20 or 25 feet high with blades would work. just me i have tried to get out of juvie halls before and the fences slow you down and cut the f*ck out of your skin when going over. and thats why you put up two fences. so they can’t just climb over jump downb and run. with a 20 to 25 foot fence it takes the adver­age per­son a good 20 min­utes to get over the first fence and they still got another fence to go and most would be tired. then later you can add more to that, cam­eras, dogs, men, any­thing you would work.

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  24. mr. dustin says:
    August 4, 2005 at 2:42 am

    It’s nice to see Americans speak­ing up about this issue. But quite frankly, unless someone’s print­ing this mes­sage­board out, and send­ing it to con­gress, every day and then some, that’s all it’s ever gonna be — a mes­sage­board to pour your ener­gies to. I’m not sup­port­ing the ille­gal actions of these peo­ple, and I do agree with pro­tect­ing my coun­try; but seri­ously, until some­one (who cares enough to do so) does some­thing other than leave a message.……nothing will change, not even with a dif­fer­ent pres­i­dent. As for pro­tect­ing our land from the ter­ror­ists — it’s men­tioned in the Holy book that ter­ror will spread and there’s noth­ing any­one can really do about it except save their souls. By the time any­thing sig­nif­i­cant is done, we all be in Heaven or Hell. BTW: Bring our troops Home!

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  25. Knowmad says:
    August 4, 2005 at 3:53 am

    I really think we are head­ing for planet jiffy pop, if not scat­tered local events. The future looks bright, gotta wear shades. :-( Bad camels com­ing. Security all you want.

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  26. Victor says:
    August 4, 2005 at 5:40 am

    This might not have alot to do with this topic but I might get some answers.
    My ques­tion is:If for­eigns are more then will­ing to join the mil­i­tary and fight for their cit­i­zen­ship and for a damn good cause: fight teror­isim!! and posi­bly die,why not make things eas­ier for them???
    Im a 17 year old male that lives in Mexico you have no idea how much I hate ter­ror­isim and wish to join the bat­tle but I dont have a green card (plus I first want to fin­ish high school) I have a no crim­i­nal back ground the point is Im not a ter­ror­ist or some rapist,kidnapper,etc I just want to help.And why do I say make things eas­ier for the peo­ple that wish to fight???,because get­tin a green card is not easy and take to much time…thanks for read­ing this please post something,anything.….sorry for my grammar

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  27. carl says:
    August 4, 2005 at 9:39 am

    I’m remem­ber the still for­ti­fied Korean DMZ and also walked patrols along the East Greman– West German bor­der that was mined back in the ‘80s. And patrolled the West German– Czech bor­der. We need to do some rad­i­cal change to slow down or stop the prob­lem. The Minute Men watch groups that are in AZ, NM and TX don’t have a set stan­dard and need to be reg­u­lated. But it’s a start. When you have bor­der­ing sis­ter cities like Nuevo Laredo and it’s cor­rupt police depart­ment. Who on the other side do you look for help from. It should be a joint effort to slow down or stop the ille­gal bor­der cross­ings because it’s not like We (USA vs Mexico or Canada) have been at war with each other lately.

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  28. M. Elliott says:
    August 4, 2005 at 11:41 am

    Re: Posted by: Victor at August 4, 2005 05:40 AM
    There are already poli­cies in place for those serv­ing in the mil­i­tary of the United States to become cit­i­zens. It is an expe­dited process as of this year and the base legal office will assist you for free. Contact a recruiter for your ser­vice of choice and ask them for their advice on join­ing our mil­i­tary. Maybe you will get lucky.

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  29. william glass says:
    August 4, 2005 at 11:59 am

    i,voted for mr.bush twice,but his com­ment that the minute men are vigilantes,at first struck me as a dumb thing to say,but so were the orig­i­nal
    minute men,perhaps it was a compliment.i say orginize them,put up a dou­ble razor wire fence,
    with towers,every mile,man them with minute men,
    equipped with,night vision, radios,and BAR’S,with tracer rounds,“LIGHT UP THE NIGHT“and let the afore men­tioned flies clean up the mess.(i’m sure
    some patri­otic coyotes)would be glad to help)

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  30. D.rehm says:
    August 4, 2005 at 8:57 pm

    WE HAVE TO STOP GIVING ILLEGAL ALIENS ANY TYPE OF CARE OR BENEFIT. IF PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP ISN’T SHOWN,NO MEDICAL ATTENTION,FOOD STAMPS, WELFARE , SUBSIDIZED HOUSING,AUTOMATIC NATURALIZED CITIZENSHIP DUE TO BEING BORN IN THE U.S OR ANY OTHER BENEFIT NOT LISTED SHOULD BE DENIED AT THE TIME OF THE REQUEST.FURTHERMORE,THAT PERSON ATTEMPTING TO REAP THAT DESIRED SERVICE SHOULD BE DETAINED BY ANY LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF THAT COUNTRY SHOULD THEN PAY FOR ANY AND ALL FOOD , HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS TO DEPORT THAT INDIVIDUAL.

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  31. A USMC Sergeant of Mexican Descent says:
    August 5, 2005 at 12:57 am

    From what I been read­ing most of you are pretty stu­pid and igno­rant. As a son of an ille­gal alien which is now a nat­u­ral­ized pati­otic cit­i­zen I always dreamed of joing the Military. I joined the Marines and have served over­seas and in Iraq back in OIF I. My whole fam­ily has at one time been ille­gal and are prob­a­bly more suc­ces­ful than most of you on this forum. My mom started in fac­to­ries, worked as a wait­ress, learned English, started her own restau­rant and owns com­mer­cial prop­erty. I have fam­ily all over this coun­try. My aunt which was ille­gal prob­a­bly taught some of your kids cause she’s a teacher. My brother in law makes more money than most of you. He owns 2 company’s and has enough dough to buy a 70k car. My sis­ter owns a day­care so are far as mooching off the sys­tem go shove it. Also just to state for record if any you did your research the ones that are suck­ing our tax­dol­lars dry are, you guessed it, white but I guess you guys for­got about that.
    Traits of fam­i­lies on AFDC (1)
    Race
    ————–
    White 38.8%
    Black 37.2
    Hispanic 17.8
    Asian 2.8
    Other 3.4
    Alot of Mexican where here decades before any of your ances­tors and if you had any brains would real­ize that. When the U.S. took over the Southwest many Mexican’s became cit­i­zens over night prob­a­bly way before any of you or your fam­ily did. Anyways what gives any of you the right to talk. Just because your par­ents or grand­par­ents got into the coun­try less than a cen­tury ago you guys think it’s cool now to close the bor­ders. Give me a break. There are plenty of ille­gal Irish, German, and other Europeans that are here ille­galy but i guess it’s ok cause there white. Your all damn Pilgrims who had no right to this coun­try to begin with. You guys talk about ille­gal immi­gra­tion like you guys are actu­ally enti­tled to be here. Mexicans and Native Americans have more a right than any European but it’s not even about that. If you guys paid atten­tion to cur­rent events you would know that what hap­pened on September 11th was not car­ried out by a Mexican or ille­gal Latino. The men that car­ried it out were Muslims that came to this coun­try Legally or on Visas. So how would clos­ing the bor­ders stop that. What you morons didn’t think about that huh? You guys should count your lucky stars that ille­gals are com­ing here to work because if not you’d be all upset because your pay­ing more for your prod­ucts and ser­vices because you know that all these lazy unem­ployed legal cit­i­zens of ours aren’t going to take the min­i­mum wage job clean­ing shit­ters, mow­ing lawns in hot ass weather, work­ing con­struc­tion or watch­ing your kids. It’s sad that on an educ­tated web­site like this there’s alot of racist but that’s ok, cause I feel sorry for you guys. It’s just igno­rancy. I know how your grand­par­ents felt when they first came to this coun­try look­ing for a bet­ter place and where being spat on for being Irish, German, Polish, Italian, etc but I guess peo­ple are quick to for­get those times. I guess we should have closed the bor­ders then too huh. Many of you should watch Gangs of New York to see how your grand­par­ents where treated when they first came. As a Marine I might not agree with what any of you say but I’ve already risked my life to defend your right to say it.

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  32. Justaman says:
    August 5, 2005 at 1:49 pm

    In my opin­ion some­thing that will save some of the eco­nom­i­cal prob­lems we are fac­ing with ille­gal immi­gra­tion is stricter laws for com­pa­nies or peo­ple tak­ing advan­tage of the “ille­gal” immi­grants. I live in San Diego and a major­ity of the his­pan­ics com­ing here to work have work visa’s. I think its hor­ri­ble that you peo­ple who have stated that you hire your help for 4 dol­lars an hour. That is out­ra­geous and exploitive. You are the ones hurt­ing the econ­omy because you are exploit­ing those his­pan­ics who work in the U.S. and live in Mexico.
    This prob­lem is not caused by “ille­gal” immi­grants, it is caused by com­pa­nies and employ­ers who have ZERO ethics, those who exploit ille­gal immi­gra­tion which causes more ille­gal immi­gra­tion. The sooner this exploita­tion stops, the sooner these ille­gal immi­grants will actu­ally become tax pay­ing cit­i­zens. Who’s going to live in the U.S. and sup­port a fam­ily all on thier own with 4.00 an hour and no health care? The rea­son they work in the U.S. and live in Mexico is because of this exploita­tion and because it would be imprac­ti­cal to try to sup­port a fam­ily in the U.S. at 4.00 an hour. As for the bor­der, I agree it needs to be closed but in order to sti­fle ter­ror­ism. Even then, ter­ror­ists in the past have not come through mex­ico, but have used air­lines and have actu­ally come through and trained in the U.S. legally! Additionally, I agree with the USMC Sergeant, and im cau­casian FYI.

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  33. Steiner says:
    August 5, 2005 at 1:52 pm

    I’m tired of hear­ing about the poor Mexicans. Illegal, is just that, ille­gal. Has any­one really asked how many jobs they fill that no amer­i­can wants? Statistics are a funny thing. The south­ern bor­der needs to sealed, and immi­gra­tion treated just like any other coun­try. The south­ern bor­der is a joke, and at the present rate of infil­tra­tion the south­ern part of the US is going to have to learn to speak Spanish if they want to communicate.

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  34. *ace* sgt usmc says:
    August 5, 2005 at 9:29 pm

    i would like to know why amer­i­cans sit around and bitch about ille­gal immi­gra­tion and do noth­ing about it. a bunch of arm­chair crit­ics if you ask me. the peo­ple that are actu­ally sac­ri­fic­ing their time and going down and watch­ing the bor­ders them­selves are the true patroits and the elected offi­cial that we the peo­ple allow to run this coun­try are telling the bor­der patrol to allow them through to avoid the emba­ress­ment of their actions , or in this case inac­tions. they dont want the minute men to appear that they are effec­tive so that the aclu can effec­tivly min­u­pli­ate you so that you con­form. ingo­rance. shame on the peo­ple. if the gov­er­ment sux, the only ones that have the power to change it is you. get off your asses.

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  35. lh says:
    August 6, 2005 at 12:22 am

    The ille­gals come here for the eco­nomic ben­e­fits. We are a gen­er­ous nation giv­ing wel­fare to those that need it but at a tremen­dous cost to us. The Mexicans here send back to Mexico $20 Billion dol­lars a year. Most the that money comes from the social wel­fare that we pro­vide, food stamps, hous­ing assis­tance, meals, med­ical treat­ment, etc. Their wages are not high enough to gen­er­ate that income.
    We need to enforce the laws against hir­ing ille­gals and go after the com­pa­nies that do the hir­ing. That will dry up the demand. Illegals are hired because they work cheap ( we all pay for that). Guatemalans will work 1/​3 the wage of a Mexican and some Chinese will work cheaper than that.
    Companies do not have the incen­tive to reduce pro­duc­tion costs through automa­tion when there is an unlim­ited sup­ply of cheap labor from south of our bor­der, Russia and China.
    We do not have the polit­i­cal will to solve this huge prob­lem. This is a Government /​political problem.

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  36. ross says:
    August 6, 2005 at 11:42 am

    bor­ders are one thing , what about all the jobs that are shipped to 3rd world coun­tries? bush wants more aliens allowed into our coun­try to do the jobs amer­i­cans don’t want to do . i say if the employ­ers pay enough there are no jobs that amer­i­cans won’t do. wal­mart has fac­to­ries in latin amer­ica when they sent thier own exec. jim bill, to check on the work­ing con­di­tions of the empoy­ees there he was apalled fire exits pad­locked extreme heat undrink­able water forced over­time pay short­ages. when he com­plained to wal­mart head­quar­ters about these con­di­tions he was fired he was told he was not a team player. we need to stop any­one from enter­ing our coun­try any way pos­si­ble 5 bil­lion sounds cheap to me. we also need to really con­sin­trate on send­ing ille­gals back to there own country.

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  37. thomas madden says:
    August 16, 2005 at 4:15 pm

    why don’t we just add Mexico to the good ole USA as a new State in our Union…would’nt that cure ille­gal immi­gra­tion from Mexico?…next stop Canada-​​then Latin America-​​then South America.…then,etc…etc…we could call it the New United American Republic of Earth!!

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  38. A USMC Sergeant of Mexican Descent says:
    August 16, 2005 at 8:25 pm

    I came back to see what responses I got and sounds like the same old BS. Do you know what keeps this country’s econ­omy going? Immigrants. Immigrants if any­one of you knuck­le­heads ever study demo­graph­ics would know that are coun­try with­out immi­grants would not have enought peo­ple to replace the work force because amer­i­cans nowa­days aren’t hav­ing the amount of kids we use to. We’re on averge hav­ing 2–3. Which means if immi­grants weren’t com­ing over to work and live here and we all ended up get­ting older there wouldn’t be enough peo­ple to work all the jobs and if you guys did study that then you would know Japan is going through this right now and guess what there doing to off­set the prob­lem? You guessed allow­ing immi­grants to come and work there. I wouldn’t expect you idiots to know that. Now I know you guys are always bitchin about ille­gal this and ille­gal that; but bot­tom line is it doesn’t mat­ter if your legal or ille­gal. If your skin is brown then you can’t be here. Sorry to say that’s the truth. All you here is Mexico this and mex­i­cans that and again i’d like to point out that ille­gal aliens aren’t only Hispanic they’re euro­pean, asian, african, etc. Do you know what the damn prob­lem is, it’s that when immi­grants put in for Visa or work­ers per­mits the bureau­cracy is so shity that it’s almost impos­si­ble to get approved. So what do you do? Live in poverty or look for a bet­ter life for your kids. What would you do. Many of you don’t know but I bet­ter your grand­par­ents do. I know alot more patri­otic ille­gals than most of you or bet­ter yet than these damn mili­ti­a­men which are anti-​​government but wait there US cit­i­zens there legal. There the ones that should be deported. What should be done to all of you is, guess what just because your 2nd or 3rd gen­er­a­tion cit­i­zens of which many of you are and won’t admit, the only way you get cit­i­zen­ship is by serv­ing your coun­try in a war zone if your not will­ing than I guess your county’s not impor­tant enough to you and your ass should be deported. Just go back to watch­ing Seinfeld and NFL Sunday and live your lit­tle pathetic lives. I’ll go back to serv­ing my coun­try faith­fully. Iraqi War Vet out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  39. Dino Tori says:
    August 21, 2005 at 10:32 pm

    A USMC Sergeant of Mexican Descent? are you here just to cut down peo­ple on this board? Everyone has a right to say what they want. They don‘t need any name call­ing Sergeant! Are all mex­i­cans rude like you? Have a nice day

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  40. Against the Christians says:
    September 10, 2005 at 11:52 pm

    I’d bet ille­gal immi­gra­tion costs the united states 400 bil­lion dol­lars a year. What is a 5b invest­ment? Expensive? That kind of money is wasted DAILY in iraq so bush can “look” like he’s “doing some­thing” (AKA put on an act for the evan­gel­i­cal jesus nuts). Unfortunetly pro­tect­ing the bor­der and secur­ing a future for our chil­dren is anthema to today’s jesus dooms­day cult. Sacrifice your chil­dren to jesus!

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  41. Dino Tori says:
    November 20, 2005 at 4:31 pm

    I don’t like mex­i­cans like you Sergeant. As you can see, I am not a small man and carry a big wrench, just like my head!
    Dino
    Telephone: 248–684-2443
    Fax: 248–685-9298
    Email: dinotheplumber@​aol.​com
    Website: http://​www​.dinothe​p​lumber​.com
    Address: 12534 Birchcrest Dr
    MILFORD, MI 48380
    Contact: Dino Tori
    http://​www​.mag​i​cyel​low​.com/​l​i​s​t​i​n​g​s​/​1​3​6​8​2​4​5​4​.​htm

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  42. A USMC Sergeant of Mexican Descent says:
    November 23, 2005 at 7:44 pm

    Thanks for the infor­ma­tion and your pic­ture Dino!
    A USMC Sergeant of Mexican Descent

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  43. Dino says:
    January 15, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    This post was not posted by me, It was posted by James Freeman. I found his iden­ity from Law enforce­ment. He posted my info on this board.
    I don’t like mex­i­cans like you Sergeant. As you can see, I am not a small man and carry a big wrench, just like my head!
    Dino
    Telephone: 248–684-2443
    Fax: 248–685-9298
    Email: dinotheplumber@​aol.​com
    Website: http://​www​.dinothe​p​lumber​.com
    Address: 12534 Birchcrest Dr
    MILFORD, MI 48380
    Contact: Dino Tori
    http://​www​.mag​i​cyel​low​.com/​l​i​s​t​i​n​g​s​/​1​3​6​8​2​4​5​4​.​htm

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  44. Dino Tori says:
    February 2, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    Sergeant,
    Just to make it clear though, I still don’t care for you or other Mexicans!
    Dino Tori

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