Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Why There Won’t be a Wall on our Southern Border

I suspect that a wall and do-nothing Congress is the plan for reelection.

1. The border is the middle of the Rio Grande for 1200 miles..... more than half it’s length.

2. Except for Big Bend Natl Park, the land on the northern bank of the river is privately owned. Acquiring title thru eminent domain litigation would take years of courtroom activity.

3. Building the wall on the US side of the river cedes ownership of the river to Mexico and deprives OUR wildlife in that area access to water.

Now...... was Trump ignorant of these factors when he campaigned on building “ a big, beautiful, wall the length of the border” or was he just counting on YOUR ignorance?

The wall would be porous at best. The entire modern Southwest was mostly built by Spanish-speaking men -- reckon they wouldn't know the flaws??

Do you feel a border wall from Brownsville to Del Rio would benefit the United States?

Do you feel a border wall from Brownsville to Del Rio would benefit the United States?

The Rio Grande is already over allocated but I do realize how important water is in the desert. Times have changed and farming and ranching in areas of little to no water seems silly. Eminent domain can be fast tracked since this is a matter of public safety and national security. It seems that the border ranchers would prefer getting vandalized repeatedly, lose stock and fear for their own safety on their own property instead of supporting REAL solutions to a problem that’s plagued this country for a hundred years or more. We’re only one liberal democrat president away from open borders and the end of our nation as we know it.

We’ve built desalination plants, we’ve built aqueducts, we’ve created large “man made” reservoirs, we’ve done massive public works projects that have had tremendously positive impacts on our country and her citizens. The wall is merely one more massive public works project that will not only benefit the local farmers and ranchers but it’ll make the entire country safer.

National security and the internal security of our nation trumps everything. If we have to build the wall on our side and cede the river to Mexico then so be it. Tariffs, taxes, and other ways of collecting money from Mexico can be used to offset the loss of water. Use the money we get from those taxes and tariffs to build desalination plant/s, aqueducts and reservoirs. It’d be beneficial to the infrastructure of the United States and it’d be a great and giant works project for AMERICANS........ good paying JOBS.

Or build it on the Mexican side under military protection in a DMZ style setup.

A nation without borders is not a nation. So whatever we do it has to be meaningful and lasting. The idea of one continuous wall might not be feasible but however it’s done it would at least congregate and funnel the border jumpers to areas where border patrol could concentrate on. Video, sensors, drones and all of our modern technologies could add layers of surveillance and protection that were previously unavailable.

The Rio Grande is already over allocated but I do realize how important water is in the desert. Times have changed and farming and ranching in areas of little to no water seems silly. Eminent domain can be fast tracked since this is a matter of public safety and national security. It seems that the border ranchers would prefer getting vandalized repeatedly, lose stock and fear for their own safety on their own property instead of supporting REAL solutions to a problem that’s plagued this country for a hundred years or more. We’re only one liberal democrat president away from open borders and the end of our nation as we know it.

We’ve built desalination plants, we’ve built aqueducts, we’ve created large “man made” reservoirs, we’ve done massive public works projects that have had tremendously positive impacts on our country and her citizens. The wall is merely one more massive public works project that will not only benefit the local farmers and ranchers but it’ll make the entire country safer.

National security and the internal security of our nation trumps everything. If we have to build the wall on our side and cede the river to Mexico then so be it. Tariffs, taxes, and other ways of collecting money from Mexico can be used to offset the loss of water. Use the money we get from those taxes and tariffs to build desalination plant/s, aqueducts and reservoirs. It’d be beneficial to the infrastructure of the United States and it’d be a great and giant works project for AMERICANS........ good paying JOBS.

Or build it on the Mexican side under military protection in a DMZ style setup.

A nation without borders is not a nation. So whatever we do it has to be meaningful and lasting. The idea of one continuous wall might not be feasible but however it’s done it would at least congregate and funnel the border jumpers to areas where border patrol could concentrate on. Video, sensors, drones and all of our modern technologies could add layers of surveillance and protection that were previously unavailable.

If we were to occupy Mexico, the wall could be a lot shorter.

You’re pretty quick to give away land that belongs to other citizens, aren’t you Ace?