Hey Hillary, just for you!
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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If the Israeli's can do it, the USA can do it. 
I'd appreciate your take on the questions I posed in post #73. FWIW I will be faxing my Senators and Rep tonight re: no amnesty and the fence (I've already called them a couple of times). Hope everyone else is planning on doing the same instead of just griping...
Problem is, the big $$$$ lies among the Country Club Republicans, who tend to be conservative economically but less so socially...
Like I said many times, the illegal problem could be solved in a second with just two words: LAND MINES. Land mines placed strategically where it leads them all to one legal entry point. Does Juan dare take a chance across the mine field? Or does he do it legally? But of course, liberals would scream bloody hell if this was done, even if we planted fake ones.
I still think the best bet is the Hillarycrow... This is like a scarecrow but with Hillarys face.
I always believed, those collaborators sold the French public on phony security - even though they were well aware of the aims and capabilties of their country's enemy. Their payoff: half a country to call their own (at least in name).
To me, the similarity is unavoidable. What else could America's surrender monkey's be hoping and planning for?
its getting interesting, I will say that.
other posters seem to indicate that even the border patrol realizes that a full length fence, is probably not needed. there are certain corridors that require physical protection, those would channel any movement into other areas, which could then be patrolled/surveilled. so I don't think its a cut and dry "full length or nothing" issue. Is 370 miles enough? I don't know.
but its the politics that worry me - because seeing the vote pattern in the senate on these amendments, the coalition that supports the bulk of Hagel/Martinez is almost all the Dems plus the moderate Rs - and that will hold. If they can peel off enough Rs in the House in advance, any further compromises there would not materialize. and you know there is alot of arm twisting going on, when you see stories about Rove being sent in.
Yeah, and Bush can get it cheap from his oil buddies!
And have dogs. And bees. Or dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you.
Roll call vote:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00126
Exactly. Keep the pressure on, people. My Senators, Martinez and Nelson, are almost hopeless on this issue, but nobody's immune to intense pressure. They each hear from me every day.
I BELIEVE we'll get a fence that covers most of the border, at least those areas that can be crossed reasonably. I think we'll also get serious worksite enforcement (the dems will insist to spite the CC pubbies).
The Democrats are having a hissy fit about this. The Dims did not want ANY sort of fence to be put up, because it hampers the flow of future voters and welfare recipients into this country.
Here is what they are really saying
each "-" equals 100 miles and 20 "-" equals 2000 miles between US and Mexico.
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Now we round to four "-" to represent the 370 miles of "barrier"
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That is it.
The senate seriously exepect us to believe those four dashes are part of "comprehesive" border security.
the barrier below is supposte to guard all of the border above.
The senate is stuck on stupid.
Not to many of the dems are having a hissy fit. The amendment passed 86-14.
is that fence electrified? any boiling oil in the ditches? machine gun turrets? anti-personnel mines? I don't see those in the legend for that photo.
let's all take a deep breath here.
as I said, americans support border security now, and we surely need that public opinion on our side in this battle. let the MSM run some nightly video of a mexican husband and wife dying in a ditch after hitting a mine field, and its over. already, on CBS radio last night, I heard a reporter comparing use of the Guard to Kent State. you know the media is just licking its chops over something like that.
I remember that. It was supposed to be a barrier to vehicles as opposed to people.
no its not, part of that 370 is to repair or imporve EXISTING fences.
This is a con.
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