President Bush has signed in a new bill that will see the construction of a new 700 mile fence along the US border with Mexico.
Around $1.2 billion has been appropriated by congress for the new project, which will construct a barrier in remote and inhospitable areas.
The US shares around two thousand miles of border with Mexico and it is one of the busiest and most heavily used borders in the world.
This Administration obviously hasn’t learned from history. The chinese tried to keep foreigners out by building the great wall of China. By the way, that was built up with rock and sediment and didn’t work. We’re building a fence. It’s not going to do what the administration hopes it will. It’s a waste of money and valuable resources.
ZeFrank has a great video-commentary on it.
It’s pretty stupid. It’s the ‘great open gateway to the north’ as zefrank says. Seriously, is a 700 mile fence going to block access when the border is around 2000 miles? That leaves 1300 miles of unfettered access.
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”– Albert Einstein
The GOP once again affirms another of Einstein’s theories.