Minutemen to Bush: Build Fence or We Will

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Minutemen to Bush: Build Fence or We Will

ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN / Associated Press | April 20 2006

Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will.

Simcox said Wednesday that he's sending an ultimatum to the president, through the media, of course - "You can't get through to the president any other way" - to deploy military reserves and the National Guard to the Arizona border by May 25.

Or, Simcox said, by the Memorial Day weekend Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers and supporters will break ground to start erecting fencing privately.

"We have had landowners approach," Simcox said in an interview. "We've been working on this idea for a while. We're going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise."

Simcox said a half-dozen landowners along the Arizona-Mexico border have said they will allow fencing to be placed on their borderlands, and others in California, Texas and New Mexico have agreed to do so as well.

"Certainly, as with everything else, we're only able to cover a small portion of the border," Simcox said. "The state and federal government have bought up most of the land around the border. I suspect that's why we'll never get control of the border."

But he said the plan is to put up secure fencing that truly will be an effective deterrent, and to show how easily it can be accomplished.

Simcox gave this description of the envisioned barrier-and-fencing complex:

Start with a 6-foot deep trench so a vehicle can't crash through; behind it, roll of concertina (coiled, razor-edged barbed wire), in front of a 15-foot high heavy-gauge steel mesh fence angled outward at the top.

Behind the fence will be a 60- to 70-foot wide unpaved but graded dirt road, along with inexpensive, mounted video cameras that can be monitored from home computers. On the other side of the road will be a second, 15-foot fence, with more concertina wire on its outside.

"It's a very simple, effective design based on feedback we've had from Border Patrol and the military," Simcox said. "It's a fence that can be built on the cheap, effective and secure."

Simcox said supporters will try to build the fencing with volunteer labor. Surveyors and contractors have offered to help with the design and survey work, he said, and some have said they will provide heavy equipment.

Simcox said those involved in the planning hope to keep costs to between $125 and $150 a foot.

Access to land literally on the border is an issue because so much is state-leased trust property or federally owned, he said.

"You may have to deal with a situation where private property owners erect their own fences and may be faced with the president sending the National Guard to prevent them from protecting their private property," Simcox said.

He said the Minuteman plan is "to keep turning up the heat" until President Bush has to respond somehow.

woot for da minute men gotta keep chinny out somehow

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[NJack2AF 10+ year member]

bye bye mexicans! Whats the big deal? Mexicans are cheap labor... They are more than happy to work for minimum wage while everyone else *****es about it...

Edit: They need to learn english if they are gonna come over here tho ****it!

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

bye bye mexicans! Whats the big deal? Mexicans are cheap labor... They are more than happy to work for minimum wage while everyone else *****es about it...
Edit: They need to learn english if they are gonna come over here tho ****it!

If there weren't people to fill the jobs they'd have to raise the wage.

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

wow

they should make it 8 ft deep.

 

[southstylestang 10+ year member]

I AGREE. if i lived down there i would help and if i owned the property i would i would deff let them put a fence up on my land.

 

[DJGTSR 10+ year member]

lol it would be funny if the fence was built by illegal low wage paying mexican workers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

minutemen are funny, some times i see them protesting on the corner... one time a guy was wearing a full guila suit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[bigluis 10+ year member]

ey im mexican but i have papers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Crown_amps]

minutemen are funny, some times i see them protesting on the corner... one time a guy was wearing a full guila suit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

whats a guila suit?

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

whats a guila suit?

like the sniper suits to help them blend in with surroundings...

 

[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

ey im mexican but i have papers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

zig zags?

 

[Crown_amps]

bye bye mexicans! Whats the big deal? Mexicans are cheap labor... They are more than happy to work for minimum wage while everyone else *****es about it...
Edit: They need to learn english if they are gonna come over here tho ****it!

you just wont get it untill you lose your job to a illegal alien

i lost a job i had here in canada to a illegal asian //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif sucks balls

what most people don't know is mexico is not a poor country! yes i said it...the problem lies in the divison of wealth its very unbalanced.

Mexico has oil....shit loads of land for crops and the people to work its not ther rest of north america's fault mexico's elite are greedy bastards.

tons of other natural resorces in mexico

 

[Crown_amps]

like the sniper suits to help them blend in with surroundings...

right on //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

ey im mexican but i have papers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

That a boy! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsupwink.gif.129404938effda6ad9cca39e7f4b58a3.gif

 

[bigluis 10+ year member]

That a boy! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsupwink.gif.129404938effda6ad9cca39e7f4b58a3.gif

yay.

oh what do you mean by zig zags?