How much is going to increase the coyotes' fees with the militarization of the border?
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I don't think it really matters. They won't get paid if they can't deliver. Welcome to the DMZ. Now serving America.
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If there is an iron clad agenda to kill our enemy, and to discourage, forever more, the insurgents from entering Iraq, then I say yes.  This would require a serious ratcheting up of our activities, it would require the use of bigger and meaner weapons and ordinance, it would require border crossings to get to the real bad guys.  If this is our game plan, then I say yes.\n\nIf the purpose of sending more troops is to expand patrols and police action, then I say NOT.  We don't need more of the same bull sh it, we need a policy that will destroy the enemy, and let them know, we finally mean business.\n\nSorry, libs, your pacification program has been put back on the shelf!
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The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.\n\nKBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year.\n\nThe contract with the Corps of Engineers runs one year, with four optional one-year extensions. Officials of the corps said that they had solicited bids and that KBR was the lone responder.\n\nA spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamie Zuieback, said KBR would build the centers only in an emergency like the one when thousands of Cubans floated on rafts to the United States. She emphasized that the centers might never be built if such an emergency did not arise.\n\n"It's the type of contract that could be used in some kind of mass migration," Ms. Zuieback said.\n\nA spokesman for the corps, Clayton Church, said that the centers could be at unused military sites or temporary structures and that each one would hold up to 5,000 people.\n\n"When there's a large influx of people into the United States, how are we going to feed, house and protect them?" Mr. Church asked. "That's why these kinds of contracts are there."\n\nMr. Church said that KBR did not end up creating immigration centers under its previous contract, but that it did build temporary shelters for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.\n\nFederal auditors rebuked the company for unsubstantiated billing in its Iraq reconstruction contracts, and it has been criticized because of accusations that Halliburton, led by Dick Cheney before he became vice president, was aided by connections in obtaining contracts. Halliburton executives denied that they charged excessively for the work in Iraq.\n\nMr. Church said concerns about the Iraq contracts did not affect the awarding of the new contract.\n\nRepresentative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, who has monitored the company, called the contract worrisome.\n\n"With Halliburton's ever expanding track record of overcharging, it's hard to believe that the administration has decided to entrust Halliburton with even more taxpayer dollars," Mr. Waxman said. "With each new contract, the need for real oversight grows."\n\nIn recent months, the Homeland Security Department has promised to increase bed space in its detention centers to hold thousands of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. In the first quarter of the 2006 fiscal year, nearly 60 percent of the illegal immigrants apprehended from countries other than Mexico were released on their own recognizance.\n\nDomestic security officials have promised to end the releases by increasing the number of detention beds. Last week, domestic security officials announced that they would expand detaining and swiftly deporting illegal immigrants to include those seized near the Canadian border.\n\nAdvocates for immigrants said they feared that the new contract was another indication that the government planned to expand the detention of illegal immigrants, including those seeking asylum.\n\n"It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal," said Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami.\n\nMs. Zuieback said the KBR contract was not intended for that.\n\n"It's not part of any day-to-day enforcement," she said.\n\nShe added that she could not provide additional information about the company's statement that the contract was also meant to support the rapi
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Yes, the mexican "legal" system has alot of flaws in it still.\n\nYou can offer a "tip" at the border to get accross faster,  and a "tip" to very nice police officers for varoius help.\nA good "tip" for a officer around the border would be about 20 dollars, but only about 5 or 10 if you are much further into the country.\n\nI lived there south of Mexico City for a couple of years, and our business owner ( from the US) would "tip" on a regular basis, the city mayor, the chief of thier police, and a couple of city people.\nIt made everything work very well.\n\nI found that I could get everything that way except a phone in my apartment, ( never did get one)  but since I tiped ( really tiped) anyone that came and told me I had a call on the pay phone by my house,  I almost always had someone standing there listing for the phone to ring.  ( sorta my own answering service)
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It depends on when you go.  Here is the link for prices at Cal Skate of Milpitas.
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Yeah! What about those selfish and evil Kanucks? We ought to get them back by building a big barbed wire fence across the border! Try to steal my Samuel Adams will they?
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Well I work as border patrol and well actually you could get a 500-5000$ dollar fine it depends....its not ignored its just so many illegal immigrants crossing its to hard to handle so some cross and dont get caught the longer you've been here the more the fine will be.
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I think that's a wonderful idea, for I have been a victim of ID theft twice now, which has cost me almost that much. $18,897.00. But trying to convince the government is going to be another story, {maybe 20 G each might work} it seems to me that whatever we deserve, we must fight so very hard to keep, just so we can end up paying so dearly for what we earned.
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I think it's time we nut kick Vicente Fox. There have been numerous incursions of our land by both the Mexican military and federales who are escorting illegals and drug runners into the US. They have fired on Border Patrol Agents and local Law Enforcement Officers. This has been outlined by Arizona Rep Tom Tancredo on various news channels, yet it still goes on! The link from fireman shows the contempt this scum has for us, and it's still tolerated. JD is right again - time to lock and load! The only thing that's brown on my land that I won't shoot is my dogs! God Bless the USA!!!
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Right On CINDY_CEE13\n\n You Will Become A Statistic Of The SOCIAL SERVICES And The US TAXPAYERS Will Fund You And Your Baby\n\nAccording to TNRIP, the financial cost of this foreign invasion to U.S. taxpayers is staggering! Here is a break down of the annual costs: \n\nEducation: $22.5 billion \nBi-lingual Education: $3.3 billion \nAFDC: $2.4 billion \nSSI: $2.9 billion \nSocial Security: $24.8 billion \nHousing Assistance: $2.6 billion \nCriminal Justice: $2.6 billion \nJobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion \nOther Programs: $51.4 billion \nFood Stamps: $7 billion \nHealth Care: $1.4 billion                             \n(That Totals $131.7 BILLION Annually Folks)
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According to TNRIP, the financial cost of this foreign invasion to U.S. taxpayers is staggering! Here is a break down of the annual costs: \n\nEducation: $22.5 billion \nBi-lingual Education: $3.3 billion \nAFDC: $2.4 billion \nSSI: $2.9 billion \nSocial Security: $24.8 billion \nHousing Assistance: $2.6 billion \nCriminal Justice: $2.6 billion \nJobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion \nOther Programs: $51.4 billion \nFood Stamps: $7 billion \nHealth Care: $1.4 billion              \n(That Totals $131.7 BILLION Annually Folks)\n\nThe Invaders are also TAKING more in the way of SOCIAL SERVICES  (HEALTH, EDUCATION, and WELFARE) Than they pay into the System. This is so, because many of them work under the table and **Don't Pay Income Taxes,** \nThe TAXPAYING CITIZENS (Thats YOU Folks) Are Supporting Them\n \n$$39 BILLION Dollars -With a B- That Amount Of money is sent back to their own nation. ANNUALLY-In effect, they are LOOTING the Treasury of the United States as surely as if they went to Fort Knox and loaded up all our gold bullion on trucks and drove to Tijuana with it.\n\nThese Invaders are causing a BLEEDING in the System. As invaders, they're NOT Playing by the same rules as the Citizens. \nThis leads to a WEAKENING of Our Nations ECONOMY.\n\nThink Of It As "ECONOMIC TERRORISM"\n**********************\n\nIn Response To baby_balla_gaby And Indigo\n\nQ)-Do you know how hard it is to get here legally?\nQ)-but I'd like to mention that citizenship is SUCH a difficult process.\n\nA)-Tell That To The Millions Of Immigrants Who Took The Pains To Enter Our Nation LAWFULLY - Perhaps One Of Them Would Like To Slap YOUR Face\n\nSee main_turnkey03's Answer \n**********************\nIn Response To bored_to_tears_14 and sstooc2001\n\nSorry, Wrong Answer - There Are 300 Million American Citizens - Approximately 20 Percent Are Immigrants -\nAbout 5 Percent Of The Population Are ILLEGAL Aliens\nThe Country Will NOT "Go Down The Toilet" Without You\n\nYou Gotta Stop Listening To Those LIES - Well Al Be Just Fine When We Deport All The ILLEGAL ALIENS
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It's mainly Mexicans. Due to the fact we share a large border with Mexico, there are constantly people crossing legally and illegally. The problem is that the coyotes have ways of getting them across, they probably have connections with border patrol.
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I became a permanent resident without the help of a lawyer! It was just me and my wife! I will give you a rough estimate according to recent cost increase: I-485, $255.00    I-130 $130.00 ,I-765 $120.00, Fingerprinting fee $50.00 , Medical exam: $300.00 (Varies) ,I - 751 $ 200.00 (two years later) . I-765 $120.00 ( maybe a year later)  and finally N-400 $310.00 (three years later). \nWhich gives a grand total of $1175.00 for a green card and $1485.00 for citizenship if included! Find a lawyer who can beat that!!.
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Yes I Believe That\n\nA serious commitment to border security \nwould require fencing off the entire southern border—\nall 1,891 miles of it. \n(For comparison, \nwe have 40,000 miles of Maintained US Interstate Highways.)\n\nAt $1.7 million per mile \n(the cost of the first 10 mile stretch in San Diego), \nthe entire U.S.-Mexican border could be sealed off\n(all 1,891 miles of it )\nfor $3.3 billion dollars.\n\nIraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.\n\nCost / benefit analysis, anyone? \n\n\n\n\nIf / When We MILITARIZE That Border\nThat Border WILL Be Secure
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I suspect we can't afford the war we are already fighting.  I don't understand what you think he has to protect his people from.  Most of them on the northern border are waiting to wade across the river, and any additional military presence there would sure cut down on the illegal immigration problem.  As poor as Mexico is, I think the reason they don't crack down more on that is because it helps solve a problem for them.  They have fewer poor citizens to support, and those people often cross the border, get jobs and send money back home to family.  It's kind of a win-win for the government.
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If you mean more patrols by law enforcement officials, are you willing to pay higher taxes? Because that's what it's going to come down to.
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The closest answer is $10,000,000,000 per month based on the following figures covering the next five years:\n\n$460,000,000,000 in military costs\n$315,000,000,000 in veterans' costs\n$220,000,000,000 in added interest\n$119,000,000,000 per $5 increase per barrel in the price of oil\n\n$1,114,000,000,000 total projected cost over the next 5 years. (That's 1.1 TRILLION dollars.)\n\n(1,114,000,000,000 / (365 * 5)) * 30 = $18,000,000,000 per month\n\nWithout veterans' costs, the total is $799,000,000,000. In this case, the cost per month is:\n\n(799,000,000,000 / (365 * 5)) * 30 = $13,000,000,000 per month\n\nNOTE: Total amounts are approximations.