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Comment on La Linda Bridge by Glen Peddy

Glen Peddy — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:58:59 +0000

Previous comment should have said turn RIGHT upstream.

Comment on La Linda Bridge by Glen Peddy

Glen Peddy — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:38:19 +0000

I used to cross the bridge, immediately turn left and go a few hundered yards upstream, put our canoes into the Rio Grande and canoe to Dryden Crossing. (We had hired drivers to take our vehicles to the Dryden Crossing.) It was a great trip back in the early 1990′s. On our last trip we put in down stream of the bridge because the Mexican government had put a radio tower in the middle of the road that lead upstream.

Comment on Alex – Update on Need for TRIMS by el paso county fema cap | lorraine warren demonologist

el paso county fema cap | lorraine warren demonologist — Sun, 22 May 2011 09:22:30 +0000

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Comment on Editorial: Rio Grande Needs Help to Stay Afloat by Edmond English

Edmond English — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:05:40 +0000

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Comment on La Linda Bridge by Tony

Tony — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:36:26 +0000

1. Yes on foot… how do you think they get to the middle of nowhere? On foot? the transport is done by car/truck/mule to the “border” then you think it walks its way all the way into the interior hubs? I won’t even discuss volume…
2. No war on drugs? Soooo the 20k+ mexicans dead and the money thrown at the problem is not a “war” Is it a movement? Towards?
3. My suggestions have already been done and enforced in South America. Do your research, know your history before say “foolish”. Another prime example look at our current two war fronts. How do you think our troops weed out terrorists? Knowledge is power brotha…

Comment on La Linda Bridge by James Evans

James Evans — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:29:01 +0000

1.It is just not true that the LaLinda area is a HUGE drug and illegal portal. That is a flat out lie. Anything that comes through that area is on foot. Not trucks.
2. There is no war on drugs. There never was.
3. Your suggestions are completely foolish.

Comment on La Linda Bridge by Tony

Tony — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:15:20 +0000

Well let me just say this… I just came back from a mining location not far from La Linda bridge and the facts are this… illegal immigration IS rampant through the whole area and has been… WHY we spent millions on a fence is a joke… The La Linda area is a HUGE drug and illegal immigration portal. Has been more so than other actual border crossings. Why? Because of its remote location. So your fooling yourself in thinking that in not opening the bridge will keep things “safe” in the area. If anything opening the bridge we bring in more federal funds to protect the area from a already rampant entry of drugs and immigrants. This is very common knowledge from the other side. Sooo opening the bridge will only bring more federal enforcement not bring in more drugs or illegals into the country. But if anyone is really reading this… And truly wants to crack down on drugs and immigration… its pretty simple… bring in the drone planes… bring in the blackhawk paramilitary repelling Homeland security troops who can repel from the helicopter and stop illegal entry or drug entry. If this is truly a “war” on drugs and immigration this is what it takes. For the Mexican government its not hard. They need to follow Columbia’s tactics. Establish paramilitary US trained block groups of 50 men squads living on military bases on each border city and squeezing out the “bad people” through US intel, and by the MEXICAN people telling the government where the “bad things” are going on. Now this is a true resolution to a bad problem but it will get much worse before it gets better. But if its truly a “war” then this must be done. Your comments are welcome….

Comment on La Linda Bridge by James Evans

James Evans — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:20:07 +0000

Tony you missed the point. Not ONLY tourists would use a point of entry. You open the gate and you open it up to everything. It’s not fear and speculation at all when there has been over 23,000 drug related murders in Mexico since January 2006 Opening another port of entry is not worth the tradeoff even if it were only a remote possibility. Black Gap is beautiful just the way it is, closed and sparsely inhabited. You need to read and understand what I am saying. It is not about fear. RGI is not thinking about all of the consequences of their proposals and actions. Just today there is an article in the paper how RGI was a part of the introducing and releasing of 300 Tunisian Beetles to eat the salt cedar on the Rio Grande. In less than a year they devoured 23 miles of salt cedar, and now there are millions and millions of them eating the good trees too. I am not basing anything on fear, but trying to think of all the possibilities.

Comment on La Linda Bridge by Tony Mancini

Tony Mancini — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:56:11 +0000

James your comments about the bridge are wrong. You say that having the bridge will bring pollution and drug trafficking but then make another point that only maybe 100 tourists will use it a week? The two don’t make sense. Your GOING to have illegals and drugs at ANY high volume point of entry. If drug and illegals are going to cross then do not need to at this point of entry if it were ever to come back. As you have noted its in the middle of very little tourist and population area for now. Your facts and statements are based on fear and speculation.
Not think out side the scope and think about why the bridge was made originally for… natural resources, mining, and perhaps some tourism. By tearing down this bridge you put our relations with Mexico, commerce, and tourism three steps back. If silly to consider the money we spent for a “fence” to hold back the tied of drugs and illegals would actually work. Nothing that a portable diamond blade can remove in 3 minutes! Think about ALL the money spent on that. In conclusion KEEP the bridge, but perhaps make it a by pre permit only for visitors on business our tourism. But don’t let speculation and fear from keeping us going forward. Exactly what 9/11 has done to us as Americans.

Comment on La Linda Bridge by Marlon Depaulis

Marlon Depaulis — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:32:59 +0000

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