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Senate Votes to Build 370-Mile Triple-Layered Fence on Mexican Border
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Posted on 05/17/2006 12:05:20 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
Drudge just headline so far...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 109th; borderfence; southernborder
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To: The South Texan
I say we just pay the Minutemen to build a fence and patrol it. It would get done better and faster.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:31:38 PM PDT
by
TomasUSMC
((FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.))
To: Rummyfan
Ok, Ok. So Ted Kennedy will have to turn sideways.
To: BurbankKarl
That's a mighty impressive wall - will it help keep out 100-200m LEGAL aliens as part of this Senate package?
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:32:55 PM PDT
by
lemura
To: Roscoe Karns
This is a joke unless the basic rule of all obstacles is considered. All obstacles must be covered by either observation or fire to be effective.
To: TomasUSMC
Rove told lawmakers . . . The president doesnt want to enforce immigration law because hes afraid hell inconvenience someone who wants to come into the country for a better life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12838263
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:33:50 PM PDT
by
soccer_maniac
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To: brytlea
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:34:18 PM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: SteveMcKing
Dare Bush vetos?
I wouldn't sweat it, the muscles in his veto hand have long since atrophied.
Seriously though, the fence is not incompatable with a reasonable guest-worker program. Speaking from a purely dirty politics point of view, he can take the high road on this along the lines of "The people have spoken and I won't go against them" and still be able to get a solid guest worker program and immigration enforcement that does not involve mines, machine guns or box cars packed with illegals.
To: TomasUSMC
"I say we just pay the Minutemen to build a fence and patrol it. It would get done better and faster"
I agree. Just like Wal-Mart was able to get supplies into the Katrina area faster than FEMA.
The private sector can do amazing stuff.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:34:55 PM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: Roscoe Karns
I OPPOSE ANY FENCE THAT AFFECTS THE MIGRATORY PATTERNS OF THE DESERT SHREW!
:)
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:36:07 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: areafiftyone
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, an outspoken opponent of the Senate bill, derided the effort. I didnt see it was a persuasive event. If it was about Karl Rove seeking to convince members of Congress after debate that hes right and were wrong it would have been better not to have the meeting, he said. It's good to see the House is standing their ground despite the pressure.
To: The South Texan
DOGS - BORDER PATROL DOGS!!! HEREE KILLER!
To: soccer_maniac
Oh my gawd! I don't even know what to say because if I said what I am thinking I would be permantently banned.
&^*%^&*(*&^%$#@!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:37:05 PM PDT
by
sheana
To: truthkeeper
I hear the dam breaking. This fence will succeed in preventing border-jumping in urban areas like the San Diego fence has done, and will make it easier to isolate the illegals to remote areas where we can better concentrate personnel and UV minitoring. Additionally I think that vehicle barriers will be placed alongside a much wider border area.
This is a good beginning, and I am cautiously optimistic...
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:37:09 PM PDT
by
Al Simmons
(Four-time Bush Voter 1994-2004!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: GarySpFc
Well its a wierd start but at least its a start!
To: TomasUSMC
Arent' the Minutemen supposed to start building one? I thought they already had some building companies ready and waiting to start.
To: The South Texan
ummmm ....
Doesn't the government use a bidding process to tender a contract to a private company to first assess and engineer the fence and then another private contractor(s) to build the fence(s)?
In other words the fence will be built by private companies
So I really have no idea what you are talking about.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:39:10 PM PDT
by
hawkaw
To: Republican Red
Is this the same country that built the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal, that built the Empire State building in about 14 months? The one that was at nearly zero aircraft produce before WWII and was producing hundreds of thousands of aircraft within 3 years? The one that mounted the Normandy invasion? Is this the country that built the interstate highway system? That put a man on the moon in the span of one decade's effort?
Will someone please tell me what all this nonsense about "we can't build a fence/wall/whatever it takes" to keep our border secure? What the heck is going on here? I know some people disagree, but this is the same weak, "can't do" attitude that is the primary reason (besides politicians) why there aren't two beautiful, reinforced, taller and grander World Trade Center towers standing alongside that awful hole in Manhattan.
To: MikeWUSAF
They don't THINK. They KNOW. Look at the alarming number of people who think this is a good thing. You're right. It is about amnesty. Anything else is just thrown out to accomplish that ultimate goal. Rush proved that today when he announced the Senate had decided not to implement anything until after amnesty.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:40:59 PM PDT
by
isrul
To: Al Simmons
"This is a good beginning, and I am cautiously optimistic...
"
I agree 100%...I live 7 miles north of the border and this is a huge step in the right direction. The bottom-line is that if the fence they build works to stop the crossings, then the pressure to extend it will be unstoppable!
-Toonces
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:41:28 PM PDT
by
Toonces T. Cat
(The Token Republican in Deep South Texas...)
To: Rummyfan
Actally it's not all that smart to build a fence that long. Many desolate rural areas would be much better served using a combination of patrols, video monitoring and sensors.
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