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Uh, no, unfortunately once they are turned over to CBP they will be "processed" and released like the rest of the vermin.
I just read a bunch about the Ranch Rescue bunch getting sued. This stuff has to stop. Catch and release, catch and release.
We need to seal the border, I think the majority of folks pretty much agree with that thought.
If President Trump and the Dems would quit bickering, we could probably get some commonsense stuff done.
I found a pretty good story on the border wall from USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall...nce/605855001/
After passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, Customs and Border Protection used eminent domain to seize (and pay for) hundreds of private parcels along the Rio Grande. The cost was enormous, the political backlash furious.
At the same time, the river’s bending hydrology created design nightmares. The border adheres to a pretzel-like channel. Fencing to match would have meant financial chaos and potential catastrophe. A barrier alongside any curving river acts as a dam at high water, backing up the flow and then collapsing into a massive flood.
Moreover, such construction likely would have violated a treaty with Mexico that is overseen by the International Boundary and Water Commission. (Officials from both sides of that binational agency declined repeated requests for comment on the proposed wall.)
As a result, Customs and Border Protection was forced to erect straight-line fences, often on levees far from the river, the border. Some sit more than a mile away, so removed we can't even see them from our helicopter. These distances leave some Texans, and their land, in a nebulous zone between border and fence.
The actual border sits generally in the middle of the Rio Grande, so dry-land property begins dozens or hundreds of feet north or east of the line. A border wall would sit somewhere beyond that; it is impossible to know where without a final plan.
But to gauge the potential impact, the USA TODAY NETWORK obtained digital property maps from all 13 Texas counties with border frontage, and analyzed every parcel within 500 feet of that mid-river line.
If the wall and construction for it were to overlap that swath, it would require seizure of some portion of almost 5,000 chunks of land, nearly all of it privately owned.
Is such a seizure feasible? Consider the progress made after the Secure Fence Act, when U.S. officials filed more than 320 federal court actions to condemn private properties.
Some cases were settled for as little as $100 for an easement. Others resulted in federal payments as high as $5 million for 6 acres. But, nine years after the first cases were filed with a federal court in Brownsville, 85 remain in litigation.
Just 654 miles of border have security barriers, according to a February report to Congress by the Government Accountability Office. Of that total, 300 miles are designed to block only vehicles. That means of the nearly 2,000 border miles, just 354 have fencing to stop people.
Most of those barriers were built under the Secure Fence Act.
The GAO calculated in 2009 that the border's existing pedestrian fence — those tall steel bollards we first saw 13 miles inland, and which we now haven’t seen for hundreds of miles — cost about $6.5 million per mile. The most expensive mile was $15.1 million; the cheapest was $400,000.
Texas' border with Mexico runs for over 1,200 miles. Twelve hundred miles times $6.5 million equals $7.8 billion to wall off Texas.
But that figure, too, is bogus: We cannot extrapolate the price per mile for a wall based on what it cost to build fences. This is what we know:
1. A wall almost certainly will be more expensive than a fence due to its height, volume and engineering.
2. There are no details. While federal officials have selected some contractors to build prototypes, no actual designs had been released by the time of our journey. To date, the president has said his wall should be at least 40 feet, or at least 30 feet, or no less than 20 feet.
3. GAO fence calculations did not include land acquisition, litigation, and utility relocation costs. Those expenses figure to be huge, especially in Texas.
4. The existing fencing was built in relatively easy and inexpensive locations (less eminent domain and easier access, topography, etc.) If those barriers are ripped out for replacement by a wall, it will add cost. As more difficult locations are chosen, costs will escalate.
Still, for the sake of discussion, $10 million per mile might be a ballpark estimate in difficult terrain.
The area in question is part of the Border Patrol’s Big Bend Sector, formerly known as the Marfa Sector, with 510 miles of border.
The Big Bend Sector had just 6,366 apprehensions last year — less than 2 percent of the total. That's about 12 migrants per mile of border.
The problem is so marginal that National Park rangers, rather than Border Patrol agents, handle most enforcement efforts.
If a $10 million-mile of wall could reduce the number of illegal entries by half — from 12 to six — that would be nearly $1.7 million per migrant turned away.
Ask the White House or Department of Homeland Security for the mile-by-mile analyses. There are none. In fact, a Government Accountability Office report found that Customs and Border Protection never even calculated the effectiveness of existing fences.
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