Minutemen to build border fence on private property

Washington Times:

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), which has placed hundreds of civilian volunteers on the Southwest border to stop illegal aliens from entering the country, announced plans yesterday to build a high-security fence on private land along the U.S.-Mexico border.
MCDC President Chris Simcox said six landowners and two construction companies have partnered with the organization to break ground and begin construction on a state-of-the-art security fence similar to one proposed last year by a Pennsylvania-based advocacy group.
Groundbreaking for the fence will be in Arizona on Memorial Day, Mr. Simcox said, unless President Bush deploys National Guard and Reserve troops "to immediately secure the out-of-control Southern border."

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His organization's proposal calls for the construction of separate fences on both sides of the border, each 12 feet to 15 feet high and separated by a roadway to allow the passage of U.S. Border Patrol vehicles. Motion sensors would be buried in the road as part of the project, estimated to cost between $4 billion and $8 billion.
The structure would be 40 yards to 50 yards wide, with coiled barbed wire stacked eight feet high on each perimeter, and would include a ditch to prevent vehicles from approaching.

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It would inconvience and rerout those attempted to come in illegally. That is what fences do. They also have the effect of channeling traffic to places where it can be managed, hopefully, by the border patrol.