Return to Article: DHS reveals details of Boeing border security contract
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Let's see here..
The administration had a choice between a highly problematic and poorly designed "security system" (built by a defense contractor/crony/party contributor) or putting law enforcement personnel on the border. The first choice lines the pockets of their buddies, and won't work- thereby perpetuating the supply of cheap illegal labor. The second choice would have tightened up border security. What to do, what to do? -
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Are we doomed to repeat history? Have we forgotten the French and their Maginot Line, constructed to prevent the German tanks from coming through the forest undetected until they are at the French border then rolling right over France? After all that precaution, the Germans simply went around it.
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According to my little calculator, $67 million would pay for a human watcher every half mile at an average salary of $50,000 per year, three 8-hour shifts for 24 hour surveillance, and sufficient vehicles, radios, and night vision goggles for each watcher. It would also pay for it for about five years, not the three that it's paying for Boeing, with the added benefit of the money being taxed as income, as well as being spent in the United States to help the local economy, instead of being spent overseas for the hardware for the towers, etc.
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