How would you secure the border? Which plan seems better to you, the House or Senate plan?

Answer 1

First Thing I Would Do Is Phase Out The Border Patrol
And Charge The National Guard And Coast Guard
To Secure The Borders And Ports

Strategically Located Firebases Along The Border(s)
Combined With Aggressively Patrolled Fences (Walls)

The House Plan Is More To My Liking






Below is a sample of homeland security items
in the FY2007 Budget,
their estimated costs,
and the time it takes the Pentagon to burn through
the same amount in Iraq.

* 1,500 new Border Patrol agents:
$459 million ($306,000 per agent)
Iraq spending equivalent: 1.9 days

* Container Security Initiative (CSI)
to pre-screen U.S.-bound cargo
at more than 40 foreign ports:
$139 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 13.9 hours.

* An additional 6,700 Detention Bed Spaces
to replace “catch and release” with a “catch and return” policy:
$410 million.
Iraq spending equivalent: 1.7 days

* An enhanced Worksite Enforcement program
to “send a strong deterrence message to employers
who knowingly hire illegal workers…”:
$41.7 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 4.2 hours

* Border technology to enhance electronic surveillance:
$100 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 10 hours

* 18 additional Fugitive Operations teams (raising the total to 70)
dedicated to catching the estimated 450,000 individuals
who have absconded following their deportation orders:
$30 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 10 hours

* Completion of the San Diego Border Infrastructure System,
including multiple fences and patrol roads:
$30 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 3 hours

And now for the grand finale.
Although this last item is the Most costly,
it may yield one of the biggest benefits.

After the first 10 miles of border fence was completed,
arrests of illegal immigrants
trying to cross the San Diego border sector plummeted
from about 25,000 per year to 3,000 per year.
But of course the San Diego fence
pushed the illegal influx eastward,
into the (less hospitable) Arizona desert.

A serious commitment to border security
would require fencing off the entire southern border—
all 1,891 miles of it.
(For comparison, we have 40,000 miles of Interstate highways.)

At $1.7 million per mile
(the cost of the first 10 mile stretch in San Diego),
the entire U.S.-Mexican border could be sealed off
for $3.3 billion dollars.

Iraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.

Cost/benefit analysis, anyone?

Answer 2

eejonesaux - The forced labour camps of the US Hmmm how are you diffrent from the nazis again?

As for the border why don't you just build a wall ? We all know you are going to close the border sooner or later -just start construction now. Call it the freedom wall if you like just stay on your side of it for a change

Answer 3

I'd solve two problems at once.

I'd hire the HezBULLies to guard the border. It would get them out of Lebanon and cool off that hot spot and give the Mexicans something to worry about if they came near the US/Mexican border.

Answer 4

Hi,,,, i would have members of the armed forces.. border patrol,, us customs ,, and whom ever to guard the border.... then take the captured illegals ,,,, send them to work the highways during the Winter in Colorado,, Wyoming, Utah,, North and South Dakota and Montana,, Nevada,, and Alaska...

After that,,,, if they came back,,, we would use them to do construction work in Iraq and Afghanistan for us......

good luck