Comments on: A ‘Real’ Battle Over the Border Wall http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Texas Observer Blog » Don’t Fence Us In! - The Texas Observer http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-53553 Texas Observer Blog » Don’t Fence Us In! - The Texas Observer Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:37:25 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-53553 [...] EIS for the Valley can be found here. The site includes a form for public comment. Click here for a post by Forrest Wilder on the liberties the feds want to take in their rush to build a wall [...] […] EIS for the Valley can be found here. The site includes a form for public comment. Click here for a post by Forrest Wilder on the liberties the feds want to take in their rush to build a wall […]

]]> By: Thomas More http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-51813 Thomas More Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:53:40 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-51813 I forgot to mention the Border Wall is a monument to stupidity. See Molly Ivin's Immigration 101 I believe it was. I forgot to mention the Border Wall is a monument to stupidity. See Molly Ivin’s Immigration 101 I believe it was.

]]> By: Thomas More http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-51812 Thomas More Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:51:57 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-51812 "No terrorist has been apprehended attempting to cross our southern border" Nope and precious few others. We have no idea who is crossing our borders, what their intent is, or where they are once they are across. 32 terroist's crossed our border on Friday. Did not, you say? How do you know. The measurable impact of every life lost trying to cross the border can be laid at the door of every open borders advocate, every illegal immigration advocate and every person who aids and sanctions illegal aliens. Its time to stop the charade, trying to lay the blame for death's on of illegal's crossing our border's on anyone doing their job or putting them in jail for shooting drug smugglers is absurd. “No terrorist has been apprehended attempting to cross our southern border”

Nope and precious few others. We have no idea who is crossing our borders, what their intent is, or where they are once they are across. 32 terroist’s crossed our border on Friday. Did not, you say? How do you know.

The measurable impact of every life lost trying to cross the border can be laid at the door of every open borders advocate, every illegal immigration advocate and every person who aids and sanctions illegal aliens.

Its time to stop the charade, trying to lay the blame for death’s on of illegal’s crossing our border’s on anyone doing their job or putting them in jail for shooting drug smugglers is absurd.

]]> By: S Nicol http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-51570 S Nicol Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:33:03 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=682#comment-51570 Chertoff said, "I have to say to myself, 'Yes, I don't want to disturb the habitat of a lizard, but am I prepared to pay human lives to do that?'” This dilemma is completely false. More than just the habitat of a lizard, federally endangered species such as the jaguar have been recorded in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in recent years. And as for human lives, the border walls built to date have not saved lives; instead, they have cost lives. No terrorist has been apprehended attempting to cross our southern border, and a wall would not stop them if they tried. The Border Patrol has repeatedly stated that border walls only slow crossers down by a few minutes. In its June 5, 2007 report Border Security: Barriers Along the U.S. International Border the Congressional Research Service stated, “The primary fence, by itself, did not have a discernible impact on the influx of unauthorized aliens coming across the border in San Diego.” The only measurable impact that the border walls have had is in the number of people who have died in the desert. In August of 2005 the General Accounting Office issued a report titled Illegal Immigration: Border Crossing Deaths have Doubled Since 1995. Walls do not stop crossers, they redirect them into ever more remote parts of the desert where hundreds die of exposure and dehydration every year. When Chertoff asks himself whether he is “prepared to pay human lives,” he has his answer in the GAO report. Chertoff said, “I have to say to myself, ‘Yes, I don’t want to disturb the habitat of a lizard, but am I prepared to pay human lives to do that?’” This dilemma is completely false. More than just the habitat of a lizard, federally endangered species such as the jaguar have been recorded in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in recent years. And as for human lives, the border walls built to date have not saved lives; instead, they have cost lives. No terrorist has been apprehended attempting to cross our southern border, and a wall would not stop them if they tried. The Border Patrol has repeatedly stated that border walls only slow crossers down by a few minutes. In its June 5, 2007 report Border Security: Barriers Along the U.S. International Border the Congressional Research Service stated, “The primary fence, by itself, did not have a discernible impact on the influx of unauthorized aliens coming across the border in San Diego.” The only measurable impact that the border walls have had is in the number of people who have died in the desert. In August of 2005 the General Accounting Office issued a report titled Illegal Immigration: Border Crossing Deaths have Doubled Since 1995. Walls do not stop crossers, they redirect them into ever more remote parts of the desert where hundreds die of exposure and dehydration every year. When Chertoff asks himself whether he is “prepared to pay human lives,” he has his answer in the GAO report.

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