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    Navy Seabees Tapped for Fence-Repair Duty : The Border: The Pentagon will send units

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    Navy Seabees Tapped for Fence-Repair Duty : The Border: The Pentagon will send units to shore up the tattered fence along the U.S.-Mexico frontier in a continued effort against drug smugglers.

    December 12, 1990

    Patrick McDonnell



    The tattered, hole-ridden U.S.-Mexico border fence is due for a face lift, courtesy of Navy Seabees.


    Construction units based at the Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, will be deployed soon along the border in San Diego, government authorities say. Their mission: shore up the sagging fence, now crossed daily by hundreds of undocumented immigrants heading north.



    They will join California National Guard units, which are improving roads in the border area in an effort to assist enforcement efforts by U.S. border guards.



    Both military initiatives are aimed primarily at reducing drug smuggling, but U.S. immigration authorities say the bolstered fence and improved border-area roadways also will deter undocumented border-crossers.




    The existing fence poses little barrier to smugglers and immigrants. A chain-link fence stretches for about 7 miles east from the Pacific Ocean; some sections have been ripped out or pounded to the ground. A raised, braided cable--designed as a barrier to vehicular traffic--marks much of an additional 8 miles of border, but the cable is in disrepair and there are many gaps where there is no barrier.



    But immigrant advocates have questioned whether a so-called "Tortilla Curtain," fixed or not, will turn back people fleeing poverty and warfare.



    The Navy presence is the Pentagon's latest foray into the nation's anti-drug offensive. U.S. armed forces are increasingly providing support to civilian law enforcement, a trend that has broad support in Congress but one that has troubled many civil libertarians.



    The Seabees, according to congressional officials, will be placing heavy-duty metal panels--designed for use as mats on provisional aircraft landing fields--as reinforcement along the existing border barrier.



    The U.S. Border Patrol, which maintains the barrier, has been using the surplus landing-pad material for more than a year in the San Diego area. Authorities say it has met some success: No one has successfully cut through it, although many people have climbed over it and some have dug under in their zeal to cross the border.


    "They certainly haven't been driving through it," said Ted Swofford, Border Patrol supervisory agent in San Diego, which is the busiest zone along the almost-2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.



    So-called "drive-throughs" long have been a problem in the border zone, particularly in the flat grasslands of the Otay Mesa area. A U.S. plan to dig a ditch in that area was withdrawn last year after critics likened it to a new Berlin Wall.



    The Seabee unit, known officially as the Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, probably will be ployed within the week, possibly by Friday, according to U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Coronado), who has pushed for greater use of the military in anti-drug efforts along the border. His district includes the entire 150-mile-long California-Mexico border.


    "The fence along the border is in rags," Hunter said in a statement.


    The Seabee unit and the Border Patrol will determine whether the troops will be armed, said Col. James Sutherland, a spokesman for Joint Task Force 6, the El Paso-based arm of the Pentagon that coordinates military involvement in anti-drug efforts along the southwest border.



    http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-...o-border-fence
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    Repair our fences and STAND ASIDE as they dig under them and drop their kids and pregnant leeches over them just like our Border Patrol does!

    Smile and say CHEESE for the camera!!!



    HAVE BUSES STANDING BY...LOAD THEM UP...PROCESS THEM ON THE WAY BACK OVER THE BORDER OR THIS IS JUST MORE LIES!

    SEND THEIR UAC'S BACK ASAP!


    ALL ABOARD FOR YOUR FREE RIDE...THE FIRST STOP IS THE GRAVY TRAIN WELFARE OFFICE.




    JUST LIKE MILITARY TAKING DOWN THE CONCERTINA WIRE!

    "DRIVE THROUGHS"...LOL

    YEAH, BORDER PATROL PICK THEM UP AND "DRIVE THEM RIGHT THROUGH AND DUMP THEM IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS"!!!


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    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    `STEEL CURTAIN` FALLS ON MEXICO`S BORDER -AND ITS FEELINGS

    November 12, 1991


    Katherine Webster


    As American and Mexican legislators hasten to tear down the boundaries impeding free trade, U.S. military forces and Border Patrol agents are reinforcing the boundary along the most heavily trafficked section of the binational border-the 14 miles separating Tijuana and San Diego.



    Since last November, crews of Border Patrol agents, Navy Seabees and Army reservists have been cutting away sections of the old chain-link fence that runs west from the San Ysidro port of entry to the Pacific, replacing it with 5 miles of 10-foot-high steel wall. Last month Army reservists began erecting another 6-mile stretch of steel fence east of the Otay Mesa checkpoint, where previously only strands of steel cable had marked the border.



    The new fencing, welded from surplus landing mats once used by the military for temporary airstrips, has quickly become a symbol of the economic and political barriers that stand in the way of improved Mexican-U.S. relations.



    Many Southern Californians, who want the U.S. government to fight back aggressively against an ongoing ''invasion'' by illegal Mexican immigrants, see the fence as a victory.


    ''I`m damn proud of that new fence,'' says Muriel Watson, founder of the activist group Light Up the Border. ''It`s a good start, but it doesn`t satisfy me.''


    But most Mexicans say the ''Steel Curtain'' reinforces the racist stereotype of Mexican immigrants as criminals and drug smugglers.


    The fence ''is certainly interpreted as an unfriendly gesture,'' says Jorge Bustamante, president of the College of the Northern Border in Tijuana. ''We recognize it is the sovereign right of the U.S. to build it, but that doesn`t change the significance of the gesture.''


    Border Patrol statistics reflect the magnitude of the issue. The agency estimates that more than 1 million undocumented immigrants cross into San Diego County each year. During the past two years the number of people crossing has risen sharply, spurring activists to demand more militant solutions.
    Beginning in November 1989, Light Up the Border activists staged a series of demonstrations, shining their vehicle headlights on the border to protest illegal immigration. Light Up the Border and other activist groups demanded a high steel fence, a road along the fence and permanent high-powered lighting. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), whose district includes the border area, is the main architect of the policy that has achieved those goals. He helped obtain surplus landing mats to build the new fence and also got funding for high-intensity lights that were installed along the Tijuana River levee last year.


    Most important, Hunter, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, promoted a defense authorization bill in 1988 that made the Department of Defense the lead agency in drug interdiction.


    After President Bush declared that drug smuggling at the border was a threat to national security, the Department of Defense created Joint Task Force-Six, which coordinates military support for civilian law-enforcement agencies in the four Southwestern border states.


    In October 1990, Joint Task Force-Six sent Marine Corps engineers to build more than 110 miles of new border access roads. California National Guard units joined that effort. Rotating crews of Navy Seabee welders and Army Reserve construction units began work on the fence a month later.
    This ''militarization'' of the border, justified by the logic of a ''war on drugs,'' angers many Mexicans.


    ''The Border Patrol seems to be responding to those people in Southern California who believe all undocumented immigrants are drug traffickers,''


    Bustamante said. ''This belief is so naive-the drug traffic that really counts goes in vehicles, airplanes and ships.''


    The migrants who go for jobs in San Diego and Los Angeles are responding to a U.S. demand for cheap labor, Bustamante contends, and the new fence will not stop them.


    ''The new wall is more difficult for those who are fat or old,'' said Rafael, a Mexican entrepreneur who sells plastic bags for $1 a pair to immigrants who cross at the Tijuana River levee and wade through the shallow channel. ''We have seen women hurt themselves trying to climb over. But for us young men-no, we are agile enough.''


    Enterprising smugglers with welding torches and hacksaws already have breached the fence in several places. New tunnels under the fence and its concrete base appear nightly-the diggers charge $1 a person for those crawling through.


    While acknowledging that the border improvements will not stop illegal immigration, Border Patrol agents are now better able to channel the flow of immigrants to areas where it is easier to intercept them, says Mike Gregg, a spokesman for the San Diego sector. Due in part to the border improvements, Border Patrol drug interdictions for 1991 are almost three times as high as those for 1990.


    Drug smugglers cannot crash vehicles through the new fence or backpack 100-pound sacks through holes in it. And drug smugglers as well as the Mexican border bandits who prey on illegal immigrants-robbing, raping and sometimes killing them-can no longer flee back into Mexico quite so quickly or easily, Gregg says.


    Javier Valenzuela, chief of the Beta Group, a team of Mexican federal police who have been cooperating for the past 14 months with the Border Patrol and local police to arrest border bandits, disagrees sharply with that reasoning.

    ''If we have been able to succeed (in reducing bandit attacks) through communication and cooperation, this new fence is not opportune,'' he said.


    ''It has made (cooperation) more difficult because we can`t see what`s happening on the other side.''


    The Beta Team was not consulted about the new fence, he says, despite its cooperation with U.S. authorities.


    Ultimately it is the U.S. unilateral approach to resolving binational border and immigration issues that offends many Mexicans.


    ''This (fence) symbolizes a grave contradiction,'' said Victor Clark Alfaro, director of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana. ''On the international level, we have excellent relations, but on the local level these acts contradict . . . the move towards free trade and freer movement.''

    Washington`s free trade proponents insist there is nothing contradictory about reinforcing a fence and an immigration policy that have been in place for years. They point out that the Mexican government has agreed to exclude most immigration issues from the free trade agenda.


    ''We`re talking about freer legal movement across borders for both U.S. and Mexican nationals, but we`re not going to remove the border,'' says John Palafoutas, an aide to Rep. Hunter ''Free trade is based on secure borders, the same as in Europe.''

    So the Border Patrol is moving forward with plans to extend the fence all along the 14-mile border.



    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...737-story.html
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    $133 BILLION A YEAR OF MY MONEY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS HURTS MY FEELINGS

    YOU ARE CRIMINALS AND LEECHES...IF YOU WERE NOT...THERE WOULD BE NO WALL YOU MORONS!

    WE DO NOT WANT "FREE MOVEMENT" OF YOUR DISEASES, YOUR GANGS, YOUR DRUGS, YOUR TERRORISTS, YOUR UNWANTED, UNEDUCATED BREEDING LEECHES OR YOUR UNWANTED CHILDREN!

    MEXICAN FEDERAL POLICE ARE CORRUPT AND PAID OFF BY THEY CARTELS...YOU THINK WE ARE ESTUPIDO LIKE OUR GOVERNMENT SWAMP RATS?

    PUT A BIG DRUM ROLLER ON TOP, SLATHER WITH RED WHEEL BEARING GREASE, ROLL ONE WAY BACK SO YOUR FAT ONES, YOUR KIDS AND CRIMINALS FALL BACK ON YOUR SIDE! YOU LOVE THEM SO MUCH...YOU KEEP THEM!

    GET THE K-9 DOGS OUT AND SEE HOW "AGILE" YOU ARE!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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