Rep. Steve King shows off his border fence design.
Rep. Steve King has personally designed a border fence. Some people may build model ships, others may create detailed topographical maps of Wyoming's Devils Tower out of their mashed potatoes, but Rep. Steve King
spends his time designing border fences.
"I constructed that fence on the floor of the House," he said. "It's kicking around on YouTube."
King's not joking. In 2006, he constructed a scale model of the fence he designed live on C-SPAN, complete with miniature barbed wire and cardboard to represent the dirt.
The operative parts of the fence design, and what Rep. Steve King brings to the table, is that the fence will attach to the ground, point up at the sky, and be tallish. He has blueprints and the aforementioned scale model, which differentiate him from all the other would-be fence designers of the world, many of whom have struggled with the whole
attaches to the ground part. Thankfully the Mexican drug cartels who have partnered with ISIS to infiltrate our nation and who already are, to hear Republicans talk, nearly in control of our border states already have not yet achieved ladder technology, thus rendering the plan foolproof.
Rep. King (seen here as hand, torso) highlights the method by which his border fence
would attach to the ground and go upward from there in a vertical fashion.
As for the building 2,000 or so miles of it, Steve King doesn't want to hear nonsense about expense or practicality.
When asked about critics who argue a border-length fence would be costly and nearly impossible to build in entirety, King compared it to the Great Wall of China, a project intended to keep out invading armies that cost the lives of thousands of Chinese workers to build.
"There were plenty of Chinese left over," King said.
So there you go.