NightTrain
10-23-2015, 08:00 AM
Yuma, Arizona got their illegals problem under control nicely.
No, not with Drum Circles or protests, or even with the Democratic instinct of putting their heads in the sand & ass in the air while hoping for the best.
They built a 20' high steel fence, with two additional supplemental fences to really slow the illegals down until the Border Patrol arrived. Sensors & cameras alert the patrol to activity in the dark of night.
Those that DO actually make it across and are subsequently caught are put in jail.
Success stories like these are hardly ever talked about, instead we're fed endless statistics of how expensive it would be to build something like this all the way from Sea to Shining Sea - when the cost of welfare, lost taxes & medical alone for the illegals would easily pay for the project.
How many liberal voters has the Yuma fence already prevented from skewing our political system? You can't accurately calculate the cost there, but I'm sure it rhymes with 'Billions'.
If & when this project is undertaken, the second half of the solution needs to be implemented : Harsh legal penalties for those companies hiring illegals. As long as the carrot is here in the USA, it will be a problem. However, that only addresses those illegals that are here trying to work, not the millions soaking up welfare benefits. I have a little respect for those illegals trying to work, but they still should not be here.
YUMA, Arizona – When Americans think of a secure border, whether they know it or not, they see Yuma, Ariz., and the 20-foot high steel curtain separating it from Mexico.
Beyond the imposing wall is 75 yards of flat, sandy, no man’s land, monitored by cameras and sensors and agents in SUVs. If an illegal immigrant successfully runs that gauntlet, they face another tightly woven steel fence and a third cyclone fence topped by barbed wire.
“It works,” said Border Patrol Agent Richard Withers. “This is the most secure area of the border. It is pretty hard for a guy to cross here. But they try.”
It wasn’t always this way. In 2005, Yuma was chaos. Pushed out of San Diego by Operation Gatekeeper in the late 1990s, drug and human smugglers targeted San Luis, a sleepy little border town just over the California state line south of Yuma.
That year, illegal immigrants overwhelmed Yuma. Border agents made on average 800 arrests a day, and watched hundreds of suspects run away. Stolen vehicles laden with drugs raced over the border at high speeds unhindered and unmolested. An estimated eight trucks a day sped out of Mexico onto Interstate 8 and disappeared into the American heartland, stuffed with immigrants or drugs.
“It was the Wild West out here,” said Yuma sector chief Anthony Porvaznik.
Video of the Yuma chaos made its way to Washington, where then-President George Bush pledged to fix it. In 2006, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act. Three years later every mile of Yuma’s border with Mexico contained a fence or vehicle barrier.
“We essentially apprehend 92 percent of all entries through the Yuma sector,” said Porvaznik, as he steered a white and green Chevy Tahoe through the sand. “That is 126 miles of border, which includes 12 miles of these sand dunes. On a scale of 1 to 10 we are a 9.”
Today, Yuma has triple the manpower and apprehends just 15 illegal immigrants a day, a 96 percent reduction. Instead of 2,700 vehicle penetrations, this year’s total is just 27.
“It’s pretty quiet here,” Withers said.
More : http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/22/it-works-yuma-fence-manpower-make-border-nearly-impenetrable/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
No, not with Drum Circles or protests, or even with the Democratic instinct of putting their heads in the sand & ass in the air while hoping for the best.
They built a 20' high steel fence, with two additional supplemental fences to really slow the illegals down until the Border Patrol arrived. Sensors & cameras alert the patrol to activity in the dark of night.
Those that DO actually make it across and are subsequently caught are put in jail.
Success stories like these are hardly ever talked about, instead we're fed endless statistics of how expensive it would be to build something like this all the way from Sea to Shining Sea - when the cost of welfare, lost taxes & medical alone for the illegals would easily pay for the project.
How many liberal voters has the Yuma fence already prevented from skewing our political system? You can't accurately calculate the cost there, but I'm sure it rhymes with 'Billions'.
If & when this project is undertaken, the second half of the solution needs to be implemented : Harsh legal penalties for those companies hiring illegals. As long as the carrot is here in the USA, it will be a problem. However, that only addresses those illegals that are here trying to work, not the millions soaking up welfare benefits. I have a little respect for those illegals trying to work, but they still should not be here.
YUMA, Arizona – When Americans think of a secure border, whether they know it or not, they see Yuma, Ariz., and the 20-foot high steel curtain separating it from Mexico.
Beyond the imposing wall is 75 yards of flat, sandy, no man’s land, monitored by cameras and sensors and agents in SUVs. If an illegal immigrant successfully runs that gauntlet, they face another tightly woven steel fence and a third cyclone fence topped by barbed wire.
“It works,” said Border Patrol Agent Richard Withers. “This is the most secure area of the border. It is pretty hard for a guy to cross here. But they try.”
It wasn’t always this way. In 2005, Yuma was chaos. Pushed out of San Diego by Operation Gatekeeper in the late 1990s, drug and human smugglers targeted San Luis, a sleepy little border town just over the California state line south of Yuma.
That year, illegal immigrants overwhelmed Yuma. Border agents made on average 800 arrests a day, and watched hundreds of suspects run away. Stolen vehicles laden with drugs raced over the border at high speeds unhindered and unmolested. An estimated eight trucks a day sped out of Mexico onto Interstate 8 and disappeared into the American heartland, stuffed with immigrants or drugs.
“It was the Wild West out here,” said Yuma sector chief Anthony Porvaznik.
Video of the Yuma chaos made its way to Washington, where then-President George Bush pledged to fix it. In 2006, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act. Three years later every mile of Yuma’s border with Mexico contained a fence or vehicle barrier.
“We essentially apprehend 92 percent of all entries through the Yuma sector,” said Porvaznik, as he steered a white and green Chevy Tahoe through the sand. “That is 126 miles of border, which includes 12 miles of these sand dunes. On a scale of 1 to 10 we are a 9.”
Today, Yuma has triple the manpower and apprehends just 15 illegal immigrants a day, a 96 percent reduction. Instead of 2,700 vehicle penetrations, this year’s total is just 27.
“It’s pretty quiet here,” Withers said.
More : http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/22/it-works-yuma-fence-manpower-make-border-nearly-impenetrable/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork