"Force these Mexicans to make $5 a day. Put them to work building a security fence..."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Speaking to the inaugural South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, author Colin Heaton noted that he believed it would cost $400 billion to build a fence along the U.S. border if the government used labor unions.

“I proposed a two dual-fence system, multi-tiered wall with a no man’s land — I put a minefield in there, but they said no — intrusion detection systems like we use in detecting tunnels with nitrous and oxygen emission control emitters to detect carbon dioxide upon exhalation of someone digging a tunnel,” he explained. “Then you pump gas in there, — tear gas, nothing lethal. Just make it come out the other side.”

“But what you do, you take all these incarcerated illegal aliens — even give some of the guys who are U.S. citizens in the U.S. prison system, who make about 27 cents a day doing ridiculous work — kick out the union labor charging $28 an hour, force these Mexicans and these other people to make $5 a day, making more money than they made in Mexico anyway,” Heaton continued. “Put them to work building a security fence under military and local-state law enforcement administration. … Projected budget: $140 billion, which will pay for itself in four years once you get them the hell out of here.”

Heaton went on to propose a large, single federal detention system to incarcerate undocumented immigrants, “sort of like a KOA Campground with walls.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/16/tea-party-speaker-force-these-mexicans-to-build-border-fence/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

[warrior1]

1. sounds like slavery

[joeybee12]

2. Yup, and the Repukes are pining for those good old days...nt

[bluerum]

3. How evil do you have to be to even conceive of such madness?

[Initech]

10. Dude, these anti-labor psychos define a whole new category of evil anymore.

[safeinOhio]

4. After a while, they'd sit down

and stop work until they got ten bucks a day.

[Saphire]

5. a koa campground? really??

[Cal Carpenter]

11. Yeah, a.k.a. concentration camp

[AceWheeler]

6. Question is...

...how many of the incarcerated illegal aliens were working in the U.S.(unlike those "undocumented" outsourced workers in other countries), circulating money in the U.S., paying taxes in the U.S. (you know, sales tax, etc.) but now are costing us big bucks in jails? Hmmmm?

[xmas74]

7. Nobody caught the part about the minefield?

The other stuff is crazy Tea Party rants. The minefield is the work of a sociopath.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Yeah, I didn't flag it, but I made damn sure to include it in my post.

Makes perfect sense to me, right? Force Mexicans to build a fence including a minefield that will blow Mexicans to little pieces.

This world just gets sicker every day.

[xmas74]

13. It's disgusting to even

think about.

[pnorman]

8. "Force these Mexicans to make $5 a day" I'll use that!

k/r

[Charlemagne]

12. Isnt that government interference in the free market?

[Bozita]

14. Henry Ford began to pay his workers $5/day in 1914. That was progress.

This is infuckingsane!

[Neue Regel]

15. $400 Billion??? Where do people get their cost estimates for building a border fence?

The Israelis are building a 148 mile fence on their border with Jordan for $166 million. At that rate, if the US were to build a fence that was 1,500 miles long you're looking at around $2 billion.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hS2d7C_4CPPi8fyH7U6sAzlqTOYg?docId=CNG.c28eb5680e3925e5bcd8f1ec9955945c.ad1

[Brickbat]

16. That sounds like a great idea.

It makes so much more sense to pay people who would send most of their money out of the country to do the work, instead of people who, you know, actually live here and pay taxes and buy stuff and shit.