Treason is the reason.
Posted on 06/20/2013 7:28:15 AM PDT by cotton1706
Steve Elliott, the president of Grassfire, says he still wants to know, “Where’s the fence?”
Elliott, in a telephone interview, told WND an amendment submitted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, for the Department of Homeland Security 2008 budget would gut 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.
But the budget bill now in a conference committee contains the Hutchinson amendment, and Elliott says it simply would drop the requirement for the security project. “After the Secure Fence Act of 2006 was signed into law by President Bush in October 2006, millions of Americans had a right to expect a double-layer fence would be built along our border with Mexico,” Elliott said. “Now, if the Hutchison amendment gets signed into law that fence is never going to be built,” he said.
Elliott said the language of the amendment from Hutchison (S. Amdt. 2466) specifically would exempt the Department of Homeland Security from having to build any fence at all.
“By slipping the Hutchison amendment into the DHS funding bill, Hutchison intends to give DHS total discretion to build a fence or to not build a fence in any particular location. That is not what the American people were led to believe would happen when Congress passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006,” Elliott said.
In a special report filed on the Grassfire website titled “Border Fence Funding Hoax of 2006 and 2007,” Elliott argues Hutchison first suggested this type of legislative modification on the very day the Secure Fence Act of 2006 was passed.
“A deal had already been struck to basically un-do the Secure Fence Act before the vote was ever taken,” Elliott said.
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“After the Secure Fence Act of 2006 was signed into law by President Bush in October 2006, millions of Americans had a right to expect a double-layer fence would be built along our border with Mexico,” Elliott said. “Now, if the Hutchison amendment gets signed into law that fence is never going to be built.”
Our lawmakers are lawbreakers. Imagine that.
No amnesty.
Hmmmm, let's see, what happened after OCtober 2006 that would change the course of the Act? The democrats won control of the House and Senate the very next month...enough said.
The North American Union is still on the stove in the Senate and Congress. They are yearning to get it on the front burners.
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