The idea came from state Sen. Steve Smith, a Republican who says that people from across the nation have donated about $255,000 to the project since July, when the state launched a fundraising website that urges visitors to "show the world the resolve and can-do spirit of the American people."
Smith acknowledges he has a long way to go to make the fence a reality. The $255,000 collected will barely cover a half mile of fencing. Smith estimates that the total supplies alone will cost $34 million, or about $426,000 a mile. Much of the work is expected to be done by prisoners at 50 cents an hour.
The fence is Arizona's latest attempt to force a debate on whether the federal government is doing enough to stop illegal immigration. Key provisions of the state's contentious immigration bill were suspended by a judge, and Gov. Jan Brewer is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to get them reinstated. Brewer also signed the fencing bill.
Critics of the private fence plan say the idea is a misguided, piecemeal approach to border issues that will prove to be ineffective and hugely expensive. They point to the billions of dollars spent by the federal government to build fencing that hasn't stopped illegal immigration.
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The article, as usual, is written from the all inclusive (unless you're a Conservative or right wing Christian) view point. And they talk down a fence by saying whats there hasn't worked.
Well of course it hasn't worked, IT'S NOT FINISHED!!!.
If you can just walk to the END of a fence and go around it, it will never work! And if fences WON'T work, how the hell did the Communists manage to keep MILLIONS of people inside the Iron Curtain for almost 50 years!?
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Schteveo
2 comments:
The fence was/is a lie. It was never going to be built. It was only meant to keep the sheep calm and quiet, and to that end it's worked pretty well. To ask people for private donations to "finish" the fence is (IMO) an insult, given that their taxes have already paid for the fence that isn't there.
Someday, the American people will understand that the "powers" which truly control the govt. (do not) want the boder secured, closed, guarded, or anything like it. There's far too much money being made by large companies, corporations, and labor unions, and they're not going to allow a nation of sheep to interfere with that. If that were not the case, we wouldn't need a fence because we wouldn't have an illegal crisis.
Just send ammo . Poots and da boys will take care of the rePPst.
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