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Cool.

[smith288]

Is this a mean joke...its not April Fools...so it must be true...

[King Prout]

'bout damned time!

[InsureAmerica]

Job insecurity can be a strong motivator to get things done...

[MonroeDNA]

YAY!!!!

Of course, they'll kill it in the Spineless Senate.

[yldstrk]

Itr ain't possible to actually dot it.

[pissant]

Kudos to Denny Hastert. Now can we fire the Senate and just have a unicameral congress?

[Bob Buchholz]

I support the wall, but I always have to ask myself: "Did the East Germans tell their citizens that they were building a wall to keep them in, or to keep others out?"

[TCats]

I will believe this when I see construction funded and actually commenced. IMO it's just part of the decades long delaying tactics designed to let the problem get way beyond control - About where it is now - Just little more delay needed until it's moot.

[spectre]

Great news! Poor Vincente isn't going to take this very well...too bad.

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[RightWhale]

If they can spend $3 billion rebuilding and reinforcing the levees in NO, they can build a decent fence along the border for about the same.

[peyton randolph]

Only supposed to cover parts of the border. Will just change the traffic flow to different spots. Means nothing.

[Dazedcat]

Maybe I'm just simple, but "walling up" the border should mean just that.......building a wall. This article mentions "security fencing". That to me is a big difference.

Still, it's a step in the right direction. Of course, strap yourself in for the media outcry (and Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins of course) howling about how the United State is not "East Germany".......in reference to the Berlin Wall of course.

It'll get ugly as always.....the republicans will bow to the caturwailing and clucking of tongues.....the media will scream out about denying the "poor mexican kids who will die otherwise proper health care".......and life will continue onward.

Still, it's a good first step in the real security of our country. It will also fit the majority opinion of the citizens who live here too. It's a pity that's not the only thing that matters anymore though.

[Lexington Green]

''Mr. Bush... tear down that wall.''

If the wall is built, that will be the refrain.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

Finally some movement on a very serious need...
BTW, any Senator who bucks the trend needs to be voted out.

[RockinRight]

This isn't Scrappleface, is it??

[RockinRight]

Have they suddenly found their balls??

[Junior]

Build two fences about 10 meters apart, with the in-between ground laced with anti-personnel mines. Every five meters along the fence post a warning sign with a caricature of someone being blown up, and the words, "If You Cross This Fence You Will Die" in both English and Spanish.

[Plutarch]

Looks like the House Republicans were spooked by Gilchrest, as few can absorb losing 1/3 of the GOP vote to a third party. They look to innoculate themselves with such votes, while counting on the complicity of the Senate, and House-Senate conferees to deep six the fence in obeisance to their cheap labor OBL contributors.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Start building the fence.

It should be made a felony for Criminals who overstay their visas and Invaders.

I believe we should give amnesty to these poor CRIMINALS or INVADERS.
This should be a 2 week amnesty to get the heck out of our Country.
The ones who ignore this amnesty should be buried in a tent city jail and fined $10,000 or buried elsewhere.
All aiders and abettors of these CRIMINALS or INVADERS should get 1 year in a tent city jail and a $10,000 fine for each CRIMINAL aided.
Those in government should be the first ones charged.