Posted on 08/27/2015 6:47:28 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
President Bush today signed into law a bill providing for construction of a 700-mile fence along the country’s southwestern border. But he repeated his call for a far more extensive revamping of immigration laws. “It is an important step toward immigration reform,” Mr. Bush said at the signing in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The bill is what most House Republicans wanted, but it is not what Senate Republicans, or the president, originally envisioned.
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That article was from October 2006, NOT 07.
It will cost nearly nothing if you make the illegals we capture build it! and send the remaining amount due to Mexico!
What’s the point ?
.....Bush never wanted the wall.....
..he wanted amnesty, and massive illegal immigration.
And then Kay Bailey Hutchinson took out the funding with an amendment to another bill.........
The GOP has been against the citizens for years, it’s about time we wised up to that fact.
Here’s a FR thread on the topic. I’m sure there are others.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953412/posts
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$7 billion to stop 60% of all illegal immigration would be an investment that would have a payback period of less than a year.
He also signed a bill to add 3,100 new Border patrol agents, then didn’t fund them.
I remember a news clip of Jorge at that time, looking over his shoulder into the camera upon being asked by a photogerbalist if “comprehensive immigration reform” would pass.
He actually sneered and said, “See ya at the signin’!”
That was when I took his photo down from the wall.
It's not true. KBH represented the position of those whose property would be stranded behind the fence, which was mainly farmers and the Texas Farm Bureau was opposed.
When your land is/was stranded behind the fence it is difficult to use and nobody wants to buy it.
If there is a land border in a straight line, stranding is not a problem. But in Texas the border is a meandering river so stranding was big problem. It was the lawsuits that drove up the price of the fence.
“It will cost nearly nothing if you make the illegals we capture build it! and send the remaining amount due to Mexico!”
I doubt labor is the main cost. Probably a minute fraction.
Labor is nearly half the cost of any project, and if a union is doing it 3/4 of the cost, and if it’s a bid for a government job, labor could be 90%+ of the cost.
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