Privately Funded Border Fence Project Launched
NoInvaders.Org, an immigration reform group incorporated in California since December of 2004, is now expanding its grassroots movement in an attempt to use donations and surveillance fencing profits in order to double-fence the southern U.S.-Mexico border, along the public border itself and on private ranch land near Mexico. The project is endorsed by FAIRUS.org, NumbersUSA.com, and AmericanPatrol.com.

The proposal is to build a man-and-animal-tight barbed-wire fence easily and cheaply with Minute-Man-like volunteers, but more importantly, secure the fencing with solar motion lights, electronic sensors, and solar wireless cameras, which upload constant video feed of every section of the fence and border to a new website, http://www.BorderFenceProject.com , so participants can allow activation of an audible "alarm" on their computer browser anytime a crossing occurs, then call the posted Border Patrol phone number or nearest Sheriff's department, depending on the nature of the activity. In essence, those who live far from the Mexican border can still act as Minute Men, anywhere in the world.

"Failed border security is about corruption, not incompetence or lack of money," says Jim Wood, founder of NoInvaders.Org. "Washington has often handcuffed Border Patrol and rejected every affordable and practical solution for securing our borders, their consternation was obvious in a Senate committee's rejection of 698 miles of fencing offered in H.R. 4437." Wood, one of the original Minute Men, indicated his years-old immigration reform fight reveals too much corporate special-interest demand of politicians to keep the borders open and welcome the cheap illegal labor.

"We can build a fence manned and observed by Minute Men and the American people, the only people who can be trusted, and report illegal crossings and crime to the Border Patrol and law enforcement respectively," Wood goes on. The cost of the border fence is estimated to be only $2.50/foot, about 1/400 of the cost of a proposed federal version.

NoInvaders.Org welcomes donations, orders for private fencing, fence-building volunteers, as well as "alert" volunteers who can possess camera-video receiving and uploading equipment. Donations will be used for the public fence, in compliance with Bureau of Land Management permits, and a one-dollar-per-foot profit of private fencing will go to the public fence fund as well.