Thanks for the tips and comments, everyone.

UnknownHeirs103: Can you send me their contact info? My number is 361-580-6519.

Thanks -- Gabe

http://lipanapachecommunitydefense.bl...

Many members of the Lipan Apache tribe are losing hundreds of acres of ancestral land because of this border wall. Yet, all the farming corporations along the border are not being bothered.....go figure.

Contact my friends: Margo Tamez and White Horse both are members of the Lipan Apache tribe. If you cannot contact them via the website let me know and I can get you a phone number.

I am for wall, turrets, razor wire, trebuches full of nasty narly stuff, and any that that will deter anyone no mater what color finger nail polish they use or which hand they eat with sneaking into this country without the proper paperwork.

Our infrastructure is failing. Drive down Westpark or Kukendahl in Houston and look at the poachers ICE will not pick up. Go to the schools in any town in Texas and listen to teachers having to try to teach children English because the parents are too darn stupid, stubborn, or what ever take your choice to teach their children before school starts.

So instead our tax dollars pay for them to get free meals at school. Free English lessons. Free kindergarden and prestart. Free medical care, including maternity, free food from welfare. And Free housing.

The University of Texas has a group stationed at the border that shows the illegals an underground railroad to make it to the citities and hide. The Catholic Church is helping. And be dang, your tax dollars are paying for the government grants.

So Gabe, you are usually so biased as to the other sided of the border and not as a citizen of the United States. Go and ask the sheriff's of the counties what problems they are having. Don't just ask the people crossing the moat.

Kenneth,

your points are well taken, our kids have become so lazy they want mommy and daddy to do it all for them, guess what , we do it. Young folks are just not tought work ethics's any more, it dang sure is not tought in the class room. Young people want to start at the top of the latter make the big bucks with no desire to work for it. You can not find a 16 yr old kid that would even work in a hamburger joint, now they have their butts parked on a soffa with a game in hand. Back in my day you would take any job, you didn't care how much you made it was a job and was glade to have one. The American people made the illegal alien problem..

Who is working for the big land owners, ranchers, behind the fences, fixing the fence. Behind the hunting guides on the deer leases. The ones that skin the deer. Who are they?

Could you get some pictures for us? I would like to know how it is constructed. Can it be tunneled under? Has the wall caused the price of human smuggling to go up? Have smugglers moved their operations to areas that do not have a wall? Have sumugglers just tunneled under the wall? Has the cost of drugs gone up since the wall was built?

I wonder if it would have been cheaper to offer more work permits and to process them more rapidly. I have always contended that if we can not keep out the illegal alien, we can not keep out terrorist.

Maybe I missed it, have you done an article on work permits? What is the cost? What is on the application? How long does it take to process? How long is it good for? How does the authories ensure that a legal permit is not forged numerous times and used by unauthorized individuals.?

Panama Canal?..I do not see the connection....The Dems are in power and fences are being built....This is not a Republican or Democrat issue ..IMO

Mike - The democrats gave away the Panama Canal!!!!

Who says ZOMG? A 12 year old?

I don’t think that wall has anything to do with corporate American, a voting bloc, or revitalizing the Mexican economy.

The wall represents a knee jerk solution; whereby we can go to sleep and say “problem fixed.” If we want tools to fight border security, we need to insist that anyone living or entering the united States must obtain a tamper proof biometric identification card, update the Homeland Security database, and invest in more up to date technology, such as aerial drones and and sensors. We have tried the old fashioned rhetoric and it has failed. Remember, when we secure the southern border; our open seaports and the wide open borders to the north of us will become the port of entry…..IMO

A give and take comprehensive reform immigration policy is the only solution, because Mexico is a sovereign country; therefore unless we want to pour money into that country; we cannot dictate policy…IMO

Again I don’t claim to have any expertise, but I post as an observer of the failed policies of the past.

don't forget all those billions that we send to Mexico fighting the war on drugs! then there's those billions of dollars sent back to Mexico to pay for our consumption of their drugs!

well I think you should forward your suggestion to the mexican government! You have such a unique idea oldrustybucket1, yes that's it we'll just tell them to create jobs in Mexico and the immigrants will stay in Mexico. I don't think there is anything that can keep a human being from the land of opportunity! We draw the world to the USA!

the wall is a big waste of our money! why don't we just build a great wall like they did in China, that might work and also station troops every few feet! the wall issue is put out there to take up our time so we can discuss the futility of building it!

What a waste of resources. Who in their right mind thinks a wall will keep anyone in or out? I'm with Rusty, those south of the border need a coup to reorganize their crooked governments. I heard a report on NPR last week that said the top three means of income for the country of Mexico is oil exports, tourism and money being sent into Mexico from foreign countries. WOW! That's a lot of illegals sending money home from the good old USA.

GABE: If somebody would help establish some ways Mexican people can make a living at home, they'd have no reason to come up here for work. It'd be much cheaper. That goofy wall will be a big waste of our taxes because all it'd do is make 'em devise ways to thwart the wall. I hate to think about the many inconvenienses there'll be for those whose property gets split up.