Minutemen to Bush: Build fence or we will
Minutemen to Bush: Build fence or we will
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will.
Simcox said Wednesday that he’s sending an ultimatum to the president, through the media, of course - “You can’t get through to the president any other way” - to deploy military reserves and the National Guard to the Arizona border by May 25.
Or, Simcox said, by the Memorial Day weekend Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers and supporters will break ground to start erecting fencing privately.
“We have had landowners approach,” Simcox said in an interview. “We’ve been working on this idea for a while. We’re going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise.”
We recently interviewed Minutemen leader Chris Simcox on Pundit Review Radio. You can listent to that interview here.
April 20, 2006 8:13 am 
If the administration wanted to end illegal immigration, it would have done something about it by now. This administration, in its quest for global totalitarianism, understands that the state and its welfare programs are weakened by the free flow of illegal immigrants. It wants this to happen! If the Minutemen attempt to build a wall, they will be massacred just like the Branch Davidians.
John,
I’m with you on this point, “If the administration wanted to end illegal immigration, it would have done something about it by now.”
Hard to argue with that.
Thanks for commenting. Glad to see you back.
Kevin
Okay, can someone point me to some numbers that show exactly much it would cost to:
1) Close the border (initial cost for building it and guarding it, how many troops it would take, and upkeep.)
2) How much would it cost to round up all the illegal immigrants in the US and send them back?
I imagine it would be staggering amounts of money. And do we even have the troops to handle it?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5326083
Q: How much would extending the fence cost?
There’s no official government estimate of how much it would cost to build a 700-mile-long border fence. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), the main backer of the fence plan, has been quoted as estimating the project would cost about $2.2 billion. That’s roughly $3 million per mile. But Sean Garcia, an expert on fencing with the Latin American Working Group, says the costs are likely to be much higher. Garcia notes that Hunter severely underestimated the cost of the San Diego fence, which is the model for the larger fence. Hunter said the San Diego fence would cost $14 million, or about $1 million a mile. The first 11 miles of the fence actually cost $42 million, or $3.8 million per mile, Garcia says; the last 3.5 miles may cost several times that much because they cover more difficult terrain. And that’s just the cost for building materials. Labor, surveillance cameras, sensors, lighting and road construction are not included. Plus, there are the potential costs of fighting any lawsuits that may crop up, and of buying land from private landowners.
The administration is simply attempting to remain in office at this point, so any serious debate over illegal immigration is not likely. The behind-the-scenes stress on the administration is immense. It is becoming clearer that Scooter Libby represents just the tip of a very large iceberg. The culpability of Cheney, Bush and Co. in serious crimes against humanity will be revealed perhaps before the end of the year. We should all take great comfort in this. I know people will dismiss what I say as nonsense. It is NOT.
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