Story by Brigitte Gabriel in the New York Post. (H/T ECM)
Excerpt:
Last week’s detonation along the Texas-Mexico border of an Improvised Explosive Device similar to those used in Iraq and Afghanistan strongly suggests that Hezbollah is working with the drug cartels — and that America is unsafe. Law-enforcement officials and intelligence analysts believe that terrorist groups like al Qaeda have been working with such gangs as the ruthless MS-13 to smuggle terrorists into America.
Intel briefings and other sources suggest that al Qaeda spends as much as $50,000 to smuggle in a single terrorist, while Hezbollah, funded by Iran, pays as much as $10,000.
Indeed, some analysts estimate that thousands of terrorists have already been smuggled into the United States through the Mexican border since 9/11. Last year, a worker at the Mexican embassy in Beirut was caught selling visas to enter Mexico for $3,000 apiece. Hezbollah terrorists know that once they get to Mexico they can make their way here through our southern border.
This is why people on the right want to build a fence. It’s not racism, it’s national security. All it takes is one nuclear bomb, dirty bomb, or biological weapon and a lot of people will die. We have to stop it.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
I’m not neccessarily against a fence…but it would have to be both as deep as it is high and wide as well as having secondary and tertiary prevention methods (say guards or automated turrets). Not to mention the lenght require to prevent determined people from just following it until it ends and going around it. I could only imagine the cost of such a structure…but I’m not seeing too many other options.
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Stop illegal immigration? Racist! Hate-monger! Anti-family!
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I live in the UAE. The border with Saudi has a fence, smack through the middle of the desert. There are no turrets or anything, just cameras. The cameras send video feed to monitoring stations at military bases. Apache’s can be anywhere on the fence in about ten minutes. Sure, its expensive, but it provides decent training for the air support guys and security from the Wahhabis. It’s also not supposed to be 100% effective. Really it’s just a barrier for the lazy would-be-illegals. The serious ones will tamper with it and the gunships will come knocking.
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Even a “standard” fence is another impediment. Anything that slows down the ability to cross the border is a positive expenditure. If all we can afford is to stack empty beer cans, they at least have to move, jump over or knock down the cans. It slows them down (albeit very little in the case of this extreme hypothetical example). When they are slowed, they are more easily found discovered.
Personally, I’d like to see a “Great Wall of the United States of America” erected so that border patrol police can merely walk on top (or drive golf carts) with guard stations every half-mile or so. (I can dream, can’t I?)
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