Rubenstein shows how the 1,951 miles of our southern border could be fenced off for $3.3 billion at $1.7 million per mile. It’s not your garden variety fence, either! It would consist of one line of concertina wire, a deep culvert, a 17 foot chain link and barbed wire topped fence, with a middle for driving patrol vehicles, then, another 17 foot chain link and barbed wire fence, another moat, and final continuous line of rolled concertina wire. These same fences surround and protect our submarine bases. No one gets through them!
The $3.3 billion price tag makes for 3.0 percent of our $110 billion highway construction annually. It would be a tiny percent of our national defense budget of $603 billion.
As previously shown in the Rubenstein report, we spend $346 billion annually to pay for all aspects of illegal aliens in our country. The state of California alone pays out $9 billion to pay for illegal aliens every year.
After the fence, what might be the easiest, simplest, cheapest way to maintain our integrity and our borders as a nation? You know it’s so simple I almost fell off my office chair coming up with this brilliant idea on how to stop further invasion and send that armada of illegal aliens back home. It’s called ‘attrition through enforcement’. How novel! How fresh! How innovative!
Let’s enforce our laws methodically and continually against employers who hire illegal aliens. Arrest, prosecute and jail them! I guarantee you a few CEOs walking out in shackles at Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Swift, Amour, Tyson, construction companies, roofing and landscape firms—and you’ll see a dramatic change in their lawlessness. What a concept!
It astounds a reasonable person that we pay Chertoff and Bush hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, give them countless perks and trips around the world—but they haven’t figured out that one simple solution in the past seven years. We pay 535 men and women in the U.S. Congress to protect our country, but they too fail to protect our country by not enforcing our laws.
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