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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: potlatch
Lol, put the fences up and our pants down...at last were safe!

Moony 1
Hey Hillary, just for you!

 

81 posted on 05/17/2006 1:46:10 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios)
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To: oceanview
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Feds building border barriers that employ electrified fences, tall walls, moats or barbed wire barriers to secure the borders and stop illegal immigration. We don't need to kill anyone to enforce US sovereignty, lets just make the efforts of these illegal border crossers to get into the US, as difficult as possible.

If the Israeli's can do it, the USA can do it.


82 posted on 05/17/2006 1:47:01 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
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To: Mariner

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...


83 posted on 05/17/2006 1:47:24 PM PDT by batter ("Never let the enemy pick the battle site." - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: Mariner

Problem is, the big $$$$ lies among the Country Club Republicans, who tend to be conservative economically but less so socially...


84 posted on 05/17/2006 1:47:29 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
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To: petertare
Maybe the Senate Compromise Committee that Frist/Reid sent over to discuss things with the House Compromise Committee got an earful.
85 posted on 05/17/2006 1:51:03 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: meandog
My thought exactly. This stupid fence isn`t going to do ANYTHING, it`s like trying to stop a tidal wave with a cotton ball. Plus I don`t like this whole thing with a fence...it just comes across as too commie to me. I mean do we really need to hear Vincente stick it to us and say "Mr. Bush..Tear down that wall"?

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.


86 posted on 05/17/2006 1:52:57 PM PDT by Screamname (By God, pray for me, someone help me please! Hillary is my Senator! HELP MEEE!)
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To: isrul
You're right about the "lizards in Washington", and maybe about most of the French "idiots", but for years before France was invaded, she was infested by a fifth column.

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?

87 posted on 05/17/2006 1:53:10 PM PDT by drpix
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To: soccer8

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.


88 posted on 05/17/2006 1:54:02 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: southernindymom

Yeah, and Bush can get it cheap from his oil buddies!


89 posted on 05/17/2006 1:54:34 PM PDT by DTwistedSisterS
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To: John Jorsett
Additional details: the fence will consist of 1,480 quarter-mile segments separated by one mile of open land. Ok, not really

One 'elected offical' a couple of months ago suggested a concrete barrier --- vertical concrete posts placed at about 4' intervals. No kidding.
90 posted on 05/17/2006 1:54:46 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: jimmango

And have dogs. And bees. Or dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you.


91 posted on 05/17/2006 1:55:10 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: petertare

Roll call vote:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00126


92 posted on 05/17/2006 1:56:14 PM PDT by Republican Red ("How good is it? Al-Jazeera gave it 4 1/2 pipe bombs")
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To: Mariner

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.


93 posted on 05/17/2006 1:57:33 PM PDT by LadyNavyVet
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To: soccer8

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).


94 posted on 05/17/2006 1:57:34 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: petertare

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.


95 posted on 05/17/2006 1:58:30 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: petertare; All

Here is what they are really saying

each "-" equals 100 miles and 20 "-" equals 2000 miles between US and Mexico.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Now we round to four "-" to represent the 370 miles of "barrier"

- - - -

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.


96 posted on 05/17/2006 1:59:58 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Thunder90

Not to many of the dems are having a hissy fit. The amendment passed 86-14.


97 posted on 05/17/2006 2:00:34 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Reagan Man

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.


98 posted on 05/17/2006 2:00:49 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: TomGuy
One 'elected offical' a couple of months ago suggested a concrete barrier --- vertical concrete posts placed at about 4' intervals. No kidding.

I remember that. It was supposed to be a barrier to vehicles as opposed to people.

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99 posted on 05/17/2006 2:00:55 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: Constitution Day

no its not, part of that 370 is to repair or imporve EXISTING fences.

This is a con.


100 posted on 05/17/2006 2:01:24 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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