Posted on 12/17/2007 7:07:35 PM PST by pissant
Republican presidential hopeful Duncan Hunter is blasting a Democrat-sponsored bill that would eliminate the requirement passed by Congress to build a double-layered fence covering 854 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.
"By eliminating the double fence requirement, the Democratic Congress is going to make it easier for drug and human smugglers to cross our Southern land border," said Hunter. "This goes against the interests of any family that has been touched by illegal drugs or any American who has seen their job taken by an illegal alien."
The Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill would specifically eliminate the mandate of the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
As WND reported last week, an amendment submitted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and co-sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, for the Department of Homeland Security 2008 budget was aimed at gutting the already-approved Secure Fence Act, which was adopted with the promise hundreds of miles of physical fencing would help secure the U.S. border with Mexico.
The Hutchison amendment allows the secretary of homeland security to use discretion in deciding whether a fence was the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control along the border with Mexico.
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"Pulling back from the double-fence mandate is a prescription for failure that will only allow more smugglers, criminals and illegal aliens to enter the United States through our land border with Mexico," the California congressman added.
"If enacted," Hunter concluded, "this legislation would represent a significant step backwards in the effort to secure our borders."
Kay Bailey and Cornyn? WTF?
Build The Fricking Fence!
“Kay Bailey and Cornyn? WTF?”
They have seldom voted the right way on immigration.
I would be for eliminating the fence, if as a substitute we mortared their assembly areas on the Mexican side of the border.
“Kay Bailey and Cornyn”
Both were for, then against, the “shamnesty” bill, I believe.
Time to start ringing the phones again people...
They children/nephews/nieces must be too lazy too mow the lawn or clean the pool or work at McDonalds.
BOHICA ping!
They’re at it again! Congress Critter ping!
>:(
Contact your Senators! The toll free Capitol switchboard number is 800-965-4701.
Bttt!
Chances the DHS Sec. would decide in favor of building a fence or any effective border barrier: Zero.
This once again proves that the people elected to office don’t give 2 flying craps what the American people want.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
An example of why so many called “BS” at the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Bill, knowing that after it was signed the enforcement components would be stripped back out leaving only amnesty. I wonder if this bill was written prior to the failure of the amnesty bill. /CynicismWithReason
The Senate bill # is S.A. 2466. The House version is H.R. 2638.
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