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Senate Votes to Build 370 Miles of Fence Along Border With Mexico
FOX ^ | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 | FOX

Posted on 05/17/2006 12:53:23 PM PDT by petertare

WASHINGTON — Heeding conservative demands to shore up the southern U.S. border to prevent illegal immigrants from freely crossing into the country, the Senate voted Wednesday to build 370 miles of triple-layered fence

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; aliens; fence; senate; soccermaniactroll; southernborder
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To: petertare

If it pisses off Vicente Fox, it's probably the right thing to do.


21 posted on 05/17/2006 1:09:57 PM PDT by buckeyeblogger
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To: RexBeach

Polling results must have come in on the Senate GOP and The Presidents position on this issue. And the polls must not have looked very good.


22 posted on 05/17/2006 1:10:16 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: petertare

Is there any site on the internet that shows exactly what amendments have been proposed?


23 posted on 05/17/2006 1:10:20 PM PDT by Altair333 (Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Mexico Right Over)
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To: petertare

The MAGINOT LINE of America........


24 posted on 05/17/2006 1:10:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: petertare

Has Israel pressured us to tear it down yet? < /sarcasm >


26 posted on 05/17/2006 1:11:29 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo (+++ DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND ANIMAL AND CHILD ABUSERS +++)
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To: petertare
"What we have here has become a symbol for the right wing in American politics," countered Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. If made law, "our relationship with Mexico would come down to a barrier between our two countries."

Does Senator Durbin have a fence around his house and yard? Does he have locks on his doors?

27 posted on 05/17/2006 1:12:32 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: petertare

Its a start. Amazing what Washington will do when "we the people" get pissed off. Maybe the Minuteman Project will build the rest.


29 posted on 05/17/2006 1:13:30 PM PDT by bella1 (Support the Minuteman Project.)
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To: mad puppy
The idea of an instant wall is ridiculous. The Border Patrol knows where the fences will work best to channelize the illegals.
30 posted on 05/17/2006 1:14:09 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (¡Salga de los Estados Unidos de América, invasor!)
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To: RexBeach

Selling advertising space on the fence would pay for the job a couple of times over.


31 posted on 05/17/2006 1:16:20 PM PDT by JennysCool ("I simply do not remember getting out of bed.")
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To: petertare

32 posted on 05/17/2006 1:16:28 PM PDT by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: Constitution Day

Nothing is ever good enough for some. Same old same old whining.


33 posted on 05/17/2006 1:16:54 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: petertare

Hey... I HAVE AN IDEA!!!

Put a toll booth out in the middle of the desert and require them to put a dime in to make the gate open...

That will really screw them up. They will have to send someone back to get a bag of dimes.


34 posted on 05/17/2006 1:17:02 PM PDT by Paloma_55 (Still MAD as HELL!!!)
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To: petertare

Look for an increase in tunnels.


35 posted on 05/17/2006 1:17:09 PM PDT by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
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To: Constitution Day

50% of something usually beats 100% of nothing. IMHO. :)


36 posted on 05/17/2006 1:18:01 PM PDT by TheBigB (Ding, dong, the witch is dead!)
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To: petertare

I'm all for a 20ft tall, 200,000 volt electric fence followed by a 20 ft wide, 2000 mile long moat of boiling oil.


37 posted on 05/17/2006 1:18:28 PM PDT by southernindymom
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To: tennmountainman
Polling results must have come in...

Maybe. But, since GWB's a man of principle, maybe he'll take this opportunity for his long-awaited first veto.

38 posted on 05/17/2006 1:19:40 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really needed?)
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To: petertare

That'll stop 'em. Just the toll booth in Blazing Saddles :)


40 posted on 05/17/2006 1:20:35 PM PDT by kerryusama04 (Isa 8:20)
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