IF the Mexican military has a problem identifying the exact location of the border would a big fence help out?

Question

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) responded to reports that a Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint by members of the Mexican military in Arizona by reaffirming the necessity for border fencing and other infrastructure. According to a State Department Spokesman, the encounter “stemmed from a momentary misunderstanding as to the exact location of the U.S.-Mexican border.”

"I disagree with the State Department’s characterization of this incident," said Congressman Hunter. "The fact that members of the Mexican military are routinely operating in such close proximity to the border, with no identifiable purpose, raises serious questions about their activities. Rather than dismissing this incident as a mere misunderstanding, the Departments of State and Homeland Security should try to make sense of this and the more than 40 incursions that have occurred over this fiscal year alone.

"If the Mexican military has a problem identifying the exact location of the border, then we should make it clear to them. Building fence and implementing other infrastructure in areas where incursions appear to be more frequent will prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. This isn’t the first time the Mexican military has crossed into the United States and, until our border is clearly defined and aggressively enforced, it certainly won’t be the last."

NOTE: A Border Patrol agent was recently held at gunpoint by members of the Mexican military who crossed the border into Arizona. According to reports, the soldiers returned to Mexico when other agents responded to assist.

Answer 1

AH YES! the good ol' fence! the fence that will cost us tax payers billions. Didn't we already spend 30 billion US dollars on the good ol' Virtual Fence that failed? Here's good statement from Homeland Security's secretary

Even Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff admits the border fence won't work - that illegal crossers will go around, over, through and under it.

Answer 2

Build it, make them go, and do what it takes to defend us from the illegal alien invasion!  They know what they are doing and if they dont, lets put it on the map and defend it!

Answer 3

GPS systems will tell you where you are, within the length of a pencil.

They know where they are. The technology is not that expensive. A couple hundred dollars retail for one unit.

If the US of A put troops on the border like that, the lid would blow off.

It's time to toughen up and take control of our country, our laws and the well being of the US of A.

Sadly, I don't think this is going to happen. The USA is crumbling.

Answer 4

I bet they know what they're doing and where they're doing it, but a fence would make it harder for them to bullpoop their way out of it.  what we really need to do is answer this atrocity with the presense of our own military.

Answer 5

Mexico is not lawless.  Mexico is actually a good place to live if you can find the non-corrupt places to go to.  But the border does NOT have boundaries of conduct, and it is bloody dangerous when you are not at a identified crossing point.

In this case, I know for a fact the Mexican Military has Geo Positional Sensor devices in their vehicles.  They do that exact thing to accomplish a serious stall while the dopers are moving the junk over, or harass and frighten the Border Patrol Officers.  It is deliberate.. and they DO know where the line is, as do our people.

We need the military on the border for a while.  I almost wonder if Mr. Bush didn't get us into the middle east mess to stall the policing of the border, but now, and clearly, we need military units on the border with Border Patrol Officers escorting them as they patrol.

We also need a national ballot initiative which would let the people tell Congress and the President they should do that.  

Answer 6

We fought the Mexican War (1846-48) under President Polk and many of the U.S. officers were very prominent in American history. The future presidents Grant and Franklin Pierce participated. So, too, did Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The war was very unpopular, not because the U.S. didn’t have legitimate grievances against Mexico, but because the North felt it would result in an extension of slave territory. U.S. Grant, in his memoirs, said he hated the war for that reason but that Mexico was nevertheless guilty of very serious crimes against American sovereignty. In other words, the whole matter of justification for the war was obscured by the escalating and extremely controversial American domestic issue of slavery. This has, to the present day, also obscured the Mexican crimes against American national sovereignty. By the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo America paid Mexico $15 million for the ceded territory (what, about a billion or more dollars in today’s currency?). But to put this in context, the land that today seems so priceless beyond imagination, was at that time virtually worthless per acre, unsettled, undeveloped, and largely occupied by hostile Indian tribes. Given today’s PC historical revisionism this part of American history is falsely described as American “imperialism” and exploitation. The facts tell another story.

Answer 7

The Mexican military knows exactly where they are when encroaching on the United States, it's just a 'in your face' situation.

  Yeah, we need the double walled fence between the U.S. and Mexico that we were promised.