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Veteran Expediter
I ran across this article, “Fence plan alarms landowners†USA today and wonder what is wrong with some people in this country.
The writer talked with one land owner, Ranching magnate Bill Moody about the up and coming fence and he says "They're not gonna build it," Moody says flatly. "We darn sure don't need a wall. Everybody knows the Great Wall of China wasn't worth a #####."
But he is not the only one, there are several whose land border the Rio Grand and use it for water to make money, nothing wrong with making money. But as the article continues, I get more angry with these guys and their attitude. One point that really irks me is this, talking about the ranchers “say they often give Border Patrol agents access to their land to help the agents track down illegals.†Ok, they give permission to the ICE, the last time I checked they don’t need permission to chase people and if I am searched on the side of the road, who are they to deny the feds from pursuing invaders?
See to me this is a perfect illustration of the problem in this country, a rich ignorant person telling me and you that something is not needed to protect our country. I am sorry but they should not have a word about what is needed for national security in this country and I further think that a fence is not the solution at all, but a real barrier with a ½ mile buffer zone and maybe a 300 foot deep ravine where you can’ t climb up. I say take the land that the government needs and use it to protect all of us, my God they can take the land of poor elderly to build condo’s and strip malls why not take it from someone who can afford losing it for a really important issue.
While others say it is impossible to build such a barrier, I got to remind them that we as a country have built a lot of things; some of them just amaze me, like the Hoover dam. We have enough people in this country to build a barrier like I describe, enough building materials and machinery and we still have the attitude to get it done.
The writer talked with one land owner, Ranching magnate Bill Moody about the up and coming fence and he says "They're not gonna build it," Moody says flatly. "We darn sure don't need a wall. Everybody knows the Great Wall of China wasn't worth a #####."
But he is not the only one, there are several whose land border the Rio Grand and use it for water to make money, nothing wrong with making money. But as the article continues, I get more angry with these guys and their attitude. One point that really irks me is this, talking about the ranchers “say they often give Border Patrol agents access to their land to help the agents track down illegals.†Ok, they give permission to the ICE, the last time I checked they don’t need permission to chase people and if I am searched on the side of the road, who are they to deny the feds from pursuing invaders?
See to me this is a perfect illustration of the problem in this country, a rich ignorant person telling me and you that something is not needed to protect our country. I am sorry but they should not have a word about what is needed for national security in this country and I further think that a fence is not the solution at all, but a real barrier with a ½ mile buffer zone and maybe a 300 foot deep ravine where you can’ t climb up. I say take the land that the government needs and use it to protect all of us, my God they can take the land of poor elderly to build condo’s and strip malls why not take it from someone who can afford losing it for a really important issue.
While others say it is impossible to build such a barrier, I got to remind them that we as a country have built a lot of things; some of them just amaze me, like the Hoover dam. We have enough people in this country to build a barrier like I describe, enough building materials and machinery and we still have the attitude to get it done.
