GOP's Tom Mullins: U.S. Could Put Land Mines Along Mexican Border
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Tom Mullins, the Republican nominee for a New Mexico congressional seat, suggested the United States could place land mines along its border with neighboring Mexico.
This way, the theory goes, Americans could secure its border more effectively.
Here's where it gets even more interesting: The controversial remark was made before Mullins won a primary on June 1. Mullins made the comment during a May 18 radio interview on KNMX in Las Vegas, N.M. Mullins said: The U.S. could mine the border, install barbed wire and post signs directing would-be border jumpers to cross legally at designated checkpoints.
However, Mullins now says he is not endorsing the idea. He was merely relaying what others had suggested to him as possibilities during the campaign.
Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins emphasized that he does not advocate doing such a thing.
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just put a fence on both sides with warnings notifying anyone who wants to cross that there are landmines and that if you try to cross you will die, them staying around for a long time and killing people wouldnt be a problem because you would be laying them across one strip and know exactly where they are and if you didnt want them there anymore just run one of those vehicles for disposing of them across the border
It is a stupid idea!
Mines are indiscriminate killers, and deploying them is a very... very bad idea. They linger for years, killing and maiming long after their purpose has been abandoned.