The U.S.-Mexico border fence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was to have finished last February, won't be completed until 2011 at the earliest, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Oh, and by the way, the actual cost of the 670 miles of high-tech (radars, body heat sensors, cameras, satellite phones, $$$), anti-illegal immigrant fencing has increased from $4 million to about $7.5 million per mile, says the GAO.
Slowing the project, according to the DHS, have been a shortage of labor and difficulty in convincing local property owners to give up their land for an anti-personnel fence. Other hang-ups have included poorly defined program expectations, changes to timelines, and confusion over the need to obtain environmental permits, found the GAO.
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A solution to the labor issues would be to have Federal Inmates provide the labor. Heaven knows those jokers do nothing but suck up Tax dollars keeping them housed. Any job that an illegal alien has in this country can be provided by State and Federal inmates. It is time we stop pampering people that cannot obey the Laws of the Land.
The problem with the land owners not wanting to give up their land is simple. Build the fence on the “border”. Unless of course the “land owners” claim part of Mexico as part of “their” land. My family has given up several acres of land for highways and roads, so I don’t see the big deal of giving up a few inches to build a fence. It is people like these “land owners” that will continue to permit illegals sneaking into this country. I am sick and tired of paying for them and the problems they cause.
That’s fine. Building a tangible fence is a gross waste of taxpayer money.
There is another fence; one that costs nothing except for the costs of “enforcement.”
•Fine and prosecute employers that knowingly hire illegal aliens and they’ll go home.
•Repeal and rewrite the child-birth citizenship law and they’ll go home.
•Refuse to admit children of illegal aliens to attend our schools, public ana private and they’ll go home.
•Override local legislations that tell police officers to ignore citizenship status during routine traffic violation stops and we can send them home.
•Refuse them welfare and Medicaid and they’ll go home.
Moreover, an invisible fence such as the removal of every benefit of being in America illegally shall dissuade the further influx of aliens seeking to be here without legal documentation.
Main Street America can do much better using the money allocated to this unnecessary fence for more pressing issues.
Funny comments. The reason illegals come in is because the ones that hire them make a killing of their backs. If you want to blame someone for the illegal problem, blame the ones that hire them. I’ll be damned if I have to walk around with my birth certificate as in Nazi Germany.