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..and Mexico is gonna pay for it.
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You are making numerous disconnected points. Paragraphs are your friend.
Quote:So you want to patrol thousands of miles of our border with drones? Endlessly, for all time. How do you think the people who own private property along over half our border will like that? (You don't care). If I were a rancher on the border I'd be happy if the US government prevented thousands of illegal aliens from stomping through my fields. Quote:You want to do subsonic scanning over thousands of miles looking for three to four foot wide anomalies indicating a possible tunnel. How much do you think that would cost in man hours alone to identify and investigate? Very few man hours. Computers sort through the data and mark anomalies. It would take maybe six people (two per shift) to check the anomalies and sort the real tunnels from the false positives. Quote:A long ladder is suddenly "significant resources"? It must be hard to come by rope in Mexico too. That has to be carried to the wall, meaning you'd need a truck, and a driver to take it back since it couldn't be carried over the wall. You'd need a means of transportation on the US side, or you'd have a long walk carrying whatever supplies you'd need to get to a safe hideout. Right now the same truck carries illegals the whole way. And this assumes that the drone doesn't spot you before you get to the hideout. That's a lot of risk for someone to take. Quote:You want to spend billions on something you yourself admit will not prevent everyone from coming over. And spend God knows how much more annually for all time to drone patrol and sub sonically scan thousands of miles of land. Great plan.... Ten billion dollars on a [BAD WORD REMOVED] wall. If Congress allows the money to be fronted, I'll expect your utter lack of outrage when companies with business ties to Trump are awarded the contract to build the biggest waste of money in our nation's history. Even assuming Mexico doesn't pay for it, $10 billion is a drop in the federal bucket. It would be a one-time expense. Heck, the Department of Energy wastes more than that every single year. It would be worth it if it only kept half the invaders from entering the US, since illegals cost $4.8 billion each year just in uncompensated medical costs. The drone scans would probably add another $10 billion up front, plus less than $1 billion annually. Defending the border from foreign invasion is a valid DOD ($600B annually) task. As far as which company gets the contract, I don't care if it's "Trump Construction" or "Joe's Discount Wall Builders" as long as gets done well, on time, and within budget. That's my opinion on any project the government starts under any president. Given that it's a US government project, I'm sure that no matter who they hire it will end up shoddy, taking twice the time, and twice the original budget (see my link on the F-35 above). Discouraging illegals by economic means was the Obama strategy. Destroy the economy so the Mexicans won't want to come here; at least not the productive workers looking for jobs. The criminals and those looking for handouts still came over these last eight years. "Why should I give information to you when all you want to do is find something wrong with it?" |
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