Sure is a Thin Fence - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine
Sure Is a Thin Fence: There’s a picture of some of the 70 miles of new border fence in today’s LAT. But it seems to be a single-layer fence. I thought we’d ordered a “double-layered” fence. … Are President Bush and DHS Secretary Chertoff–who’ve never liked the fence idea–trying to make it ineffective? …
Yes (rhetorical answer).



The second fence is an Invisible Fence. Now if we can get all the Mexicans to wear those collars….
Ah, so you’re the other guy that saw the remake of “Wild, Wild, West” :-)
Hmm, so if we sell the collars in Mexico as “stealth devices” to avoid detection, then just shoot off a few hundred random razor discs with tracking beacons on a daily basis, then recover and repeat, this just might pay for itself. If nothing else, it would end the revolving door of catch and re-catch.
“Brilliant!”
Took a year to build that?
Sure, Ed. It’s in the desert, so they didn’t work during the four hottest months, and the nearest fence contractor was probably a couple travel hours away (on the clock), so they only worked about four hours a day. Plus, the workers had to take time out to help dig out trucks stuck in the sand. Ironically, a Mexican fence company could have done it in one-third the time for half the cost.
Sure, but they would have had to use illegal immigrants from the US.