Maybe we need a new fence?

[1DOWN4UP]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mch0glVHY-c

 

[actaeon277]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mch0glVHY-c

Or maybe someone with sense to have figured that out during building.

Besides, a fence by itself, will never be good enough.
Prisons and POW camps don't rely just on fences.

 

[Mgderf]

Thread should be titled,

"Another Muppet News Flash"

 

[Lebowski]

I say we just fill the Rio Grande with piranhas and alligators and for the land borders: mine fields and booby traps.

But seriously... a DMZ style border I would not be opposed to. On the Mexican side they can stencil in instructions on how to enter America legally. Hell, even the Canadian side deserves a good proper fence in my opinion.

 

[jglevyjr]

Make the people captured build our fence! They don't get released until they finish the job.

 

[spec4]

Minefields. Yes, really.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Minefields. Yes, really.

Well, what measures would you rule out when your country is being invaded? 11 million people who won't follow the rules to enter our country and whose country(ies) of origin HELP them to get over our borders isn't "immigration" it's "invasion" despite the lack of gunfire and visible weaponry.

 

[Mgderf]

Make the people captured build our fence! They don't get released until they finish the job.

It's a nice idea, but remember WWII?
The Germans forced the Poles, some Jews, and others to work building their war machine. Sabotage was rampant.
Another consideration, if they build it, they'll know the weaknesses and how to defeat it.

 

[Mgderf]

Minefields. Yes, really.

I'd go for mine fields.
We can't use our own damned land now!

 

[Lebowski]

I have property in Texas by the border. It's so far south that if I want to drive north into a town with a stop light or McDonalds I have to go through a US border checkpoint that is placed about 60 miles inland from the border.

If they do actually put up a fence and there is an increase in hiring of border patrol I'd be all over that. I love the desert and the outdoors. Getting paid to protect my country that I love from illegal aliens? Oh yeah. I'd do that.

I took this picture, I am standing on the US/MX border. I am in the US. Otherside of the water is Mexico. You can easily just walk across. Texas itself is mostly a free for all. The Rio Grande at it's deepest may be waist deep. Really nothing to prevent anyone from crossing. I drove west Texas highway 170 and it literally borders the US/MX border for many miles. At any point you can just pull off on the side of the road ( as I did many times ) and walk 20-50 yards to the border. I stopped and took many photos along the way. I could drive for 30-40 minutes and never see another car. It's very under protected.

Of course, most of the unfenced border is very beautiful land. Very scenic. Very remote. I doubt that there is a lot of illegal activity happening in some of these regions but I am not so naive as to believe that it doesn't occur there either.

 

[Dead Duck]

 

[OutdoorDad]

The problem is not the border.
And the solution is not a fence.

 

[ruger1800]

Conquer Mexico, Guatemala, elsalvador,....time to add a few more states.

 

[printcraft]

 

[bulletsmith]

I honestly don't understand the problem. Do we no longer have a military? Can we not use them to protect our border? Or is our military only allowed to secure the borders of other nations?

 

[Leadeye]

I remember my first trip to mexico, crossing the border to work in juarez, the Rio Grande was a dry ditch full of weeds. Water stopped somewhere west of El Paso and was dry east of zaragosa. I guess I was expecting something a little more "grand".

 

[eatsnopaste]

That fence in Berlin sure worked for a few years....

 

[tenring]

The problem is not the border.
And the solution is not a fence.

So just what is the problem if not the border and if the solution is not a fence, then enlighten us as to what is?

 

[poptab]

Yea the Berlin Wall was great. But I'm sure ours will be different because
Mercia

 

[IndyDave1776]

Yea the Berlin Wall was great. But I'm sure ours will be different because
Mercia

The Berlin wall was intended to prevent enslaved people from leaving, not to protect what is allegedly a sovereign nation from having foreign invaders invade at will. Huge difference there.