How tall is the fence, does it go underground is it electrified does it have barbwire?

Answer 1

yeah, the biggest joke ever played on Americans, "the fence".
After the 700 miles is done, we will have 7,000 miles of Alaska & Canada and Continental US & Canada borders without fences, and another 1,300 miles along the Mexican border without fences. Then there is the problem of how tough is it to circumvent the whole idea, 20ft fence, 21ft ladder.
If you lived dirt poor yet every day you could see the bounty Americas enjoy and it was just up the road, would you let a fence stop you from trying to improve your families lot in life?

Answer 2

It's a typical wire cyclone fence - 15 - 20 feet tall, two fences - spaced 24-36 inches apart. Barbed wire to top - with razor edges - placed in several rows - electrified. At the base, spaced again at 24 - 36 inches from the main fence is ribbon wire, razor edges. The fence is planned to be beneath the ground at about 5 feet deep. I had heard Pitt bulls were going to be allowed to walk the area between the two fences.. and these dogs are trained to kill.
They said something about guard towers, with lights, motion detectors, and yes, these guards will be armed and this time, allowed to shoot - kill - etc.
The USA has decided enough is enough. Period.
Have a nice day..



You all have heard that one border patrol person had fired and shot a man crossing over from Mexico, hitting him in his behind. The border patrol person was arrested, and guess where he is now. Seems the one who was shot, was also a drug dealer.. and had the b**** to turn around and sue!

Seems that's all going to end shortly, once the fence is up.

Answer 3

I am afraid that the only way to really get control of the border is by making the punishment for attempting to enter the U.S. illegally more like an actual punishment.. I know it may sound cruel but as long as the only punishment is being sent back home then they will keep trying til they make it.

Answer 4

I believe its a actually two fences,14 ft high, and they will be equipped with ultra modern equipment to detect motion and also detect digging of a tunnel.Fencing does work read below please

For example, over a 10 -mile stretch of the border near San Diego, arrests of illegal immigrants have plummeted from about 25,000 per year three years ago to 3,000 per year today. Violent crimes have virtually come to a halt in that area, according to the San Diego PD. [Valerie Alvord, “Border fence plan runs into a barrier,” USA Today, April 19, 2004

The reason? The government built a fence. Or more precisely, a complex of two 16-foot high steel fences separated by a wide road.

It takes so much time to climb the first fence and cut through the second that apprehension is practically inevitable. Illegals have simply stopped trying to enter along the fenced border.

Of course, the San Diego fence pushed the illegal influx eastward, into the desert. Which is good, because the desert is more difficult to cross. But Arizona apprehensions climbed from 160,000 in 1994 to 376,000 in 2003. Texas apprehensions rose slightly. [Table 1]. California apprehensions were cut in half.

So why not fence off the entire border?

This is what the project might cost:

The southern border is 1,951 miles long

The 14-mile San Diego fence cost $25 million, or $1.7 million per mile [Source: James Goldsborough, San Diego Union-Tribune, February 19, 2004].

The security fence Israel is building on the West Bank also costs about $1.7 million per mile. [Source: ParaPundit.]

Conclusion: At $1.7 million per mile, the entire U.S.-Mexican border could be sealed off for $3.3 billion dollars

Juxtaposed to other infrastructure projects, this border fence seems downright puny. The Federal interstate highway system, for example, is about 46,000 miles long. A 1,951-mile border fence would certainly not be more difficult to build than the equivalent length of eight-lane highway. All told there are about 4 million miles of public streets and highways in the U.S. [Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2003, March 2004.
And we could easily afford a fence. For perspective, remember that 3.3 billion dollars represents just:

3.2 percent of the $104 billion spent on highway construction annually [Source: National Transportation Statistics 2003,

0.7 percent of the defense budget for FY2004 ($452 billion)

0.14 percent of the entire U.S. Federal budget for FY2004 ($2.3 trillion) [Source: OMB, Budget of the U.S. Government FY2005, Historical Tables

Federal funding may not even be necessary. The state of California has only 140 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border. Securing that state’s border with Mexico would thus cost about $238 million. Theoretically, California voters could pass an initiative ordering the fence.

California taxpayers would save millions in social service costs currently incurred on behalf of illegal immigrants—I estimated in 2003 that nearly one quarter of the state’s annual budget deficit, i.e. over $9 billion a year, stemmed directly from immigration.

At the same time, a dwindling supply of illegal workers would raise incomes for native Californians—and boost tax revenues.

The fence would quickly pay for itself.
What are we waiting for?
Think about it maybe the fence is worth it after all.

Answer 5

As long as there's a border patrolman on the other side of the fence with a radio, it could be 3 strands of barbed wire and be effective...that's why they're adding more patrolmen too. Same-day-service, WITH a smile! I was thinking of suggesting barrage balloons, too, stationary balloons with cameras on em...

Answer 6

The fence has automated 50. Caliber machine guns on top of it ( every 25 ft.) so that it can mow down as many illegals as possible.

Answer 7

So far the GOP congress has only funded $1.2 BILLION, so no one knows yet what the actual fence will look like. But you can expect some construction contract scandels in the future...

Answer 8

The actual plans have not been drawn up...only the idea has been put down on paper.

Answer 9

Is it going to be built by a Dubya's enterprise?