Texas installs fencing along NEW Mexico border
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I'm calling BS on this one.
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I'm call too little too late
They're starting to make districts....may the odds be ever in your favor.
Someone said it's not true. I hope it is.
Why do you hope it's true? (It's not, bet on it)
Can anyone confirm?
Only about 600,000 people that live in El Paso, TX and 40,000 that live in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa, NM
Thanks. So both smallish towns.
If 600,000 (El Paso) is small, then count that as 3 small towns, if you wish. Sunland Park.NM and Santa Teresa, NM are essentially suburbs of El Paso, TX. There are literally neighborhoods that on one side of the street you are in Texas, the other side you are in New Mexico. A major street on the west side of El Paso is called Sunland Park Drive - it's called that because it leads right through the middle of Sunland Park. Believe what you want (this BS story, for example) but I drive through this area at least 2-3 times a month and the claims made in this story are 100% false.
This is correct
Ok. Thanks.
Damn shame about all these mountain states being so messed up. God willing thing get fixed. I really want to retire in the mountains, but I ain't leaving Texas with things as they are. Some of the most beautiful parts of the world up there in Northern New Mexico.
Buena Vista and Salida- that area is a defensible position Pepe! The collegiate peaks are packed with snow every year. Fresh water and fertile valleys. Let me know when we’re bugging out!
Pagosa would be my first choice. Montana was high in the list before the Cali's started fleeing and drove the price right out of reach. I should have bought when I first started looking. I knew at the time, but I didn't make it happen.
I worry much about the land theft that Colo already sees. I wish you well.
I would love to be in the NW again but man, with things this bad, not going back. You and I both.
Going to be a little tough to get this done. Ft Bliss's target ranges are in New Mexico. How are they going to train?
Um, good question.
I am from this area. El Paso and New Mexico basically butt up against each other at Sunland Park, NM. I used to work at The University of Texas at El Paso and was right across the Rio Grande from Jaurez, Mexico. If I drove the road near Sunland Park, NM which was near UTEP, I was in very real danger of gunfire or carjacking from illegal aliens who were in NM. It makes sense, because these communities run together with no separation but the invisible state border line.
Is there a wall now? Do you see anything?
I'm not there now. But there was always a fence but it was easily overcome. Since Santa Theresa and Sunland Park are connected to El Paso, it only makes sense to continue the wall past this NM area. A little farther west begins vast desolate desert which is owned by BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and private ranches for cattle grazing. However, this land is also an area of incursion into the US. New Mexico is a poverty state, run by Democrats (go figure), 2nd poorest state in the US, so they would NEVER build a wall for two reasons: 1) they are against controlling immigration and 2) they have no frigging money. Texas, knowing that if the illegals can't come through the Texas wall will just go right around it where it ends in Santa Theresa, so it only makes sense that to not continue the fence would negate the effect of the wall through El Paso. In El Paso, most of the year the Rio Grande is dry because it is dammed up at Elephant Butte man-made lake. In the Spring, Elephant Butte releases water for irrigation and flows until the fall but it is usually crossed easily by walking across or wading. Some areas are treacherous.
Thanks for the info.