Posted on 05/20/2006 1:35:54 PM PDT by bitt
Sen. John Kerry on the fence . . . By Boston Herald editorial staff Saturday, May 20, 2006
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), fresh from the ongoing Senate debate over an immigration bill, offered the following explanation of his vote in favor of 370 miles of fence at the U.S.-Mexican border (estimated cost $3 million a mile) at yesterday’s New England Council breakfast:
“I voted for it because, first of all, a lot of it is the repair of the existing fence. A lot of it is just in the Arizona area, where we have the worst problem, the most numbers of people coming over.
“And if you go down, and you look at the numbers of border [patrol] people that we have right now, and even the numbers - I put in an amendment, which passed, and we raised the number up to about 3,000 [additional] that have to be trained and put out there. But even when we get there, we’re only going to have a couple of people or so per mile, which is simply not enough. So we’re way behind, in terms of the training and production of people. And in the short term, I think this can serve us well.
“If I were making the long-term decision, I’d announce, you know, hopefully it’s a temporary measure, and we can take it down as soon as we have enough people, and we’ve established a process where we’ve reduced the level.
“And I think that should be America’s goal, absolutely and positively. But in the temporary, we’ve got to have a comprehensive approach everywhere, and change forms of behavior everywhere. It begins with enforcement. Enforcement not just on the border, but enforcement against employers who are hiring people illegally, which is supposed to be illegal.”
That clarifies everything, now doesn’t it?
Who says this guy doesn’t have what it takes to make another run for president?
Sorry, I don't know how to ping him.
ability to speak for hours on any subject without saying anything meaningful or useful.
You do know, ofcourse, that Kerry served in Viet Nam?
This is Un-JohnF'n-Believable. (But I do believe every stinkin' word of it).
Amen.
Let there be light and justice.
J F'n Kerry is beneath contempt.
He is truly loathesome.
The man is a moron. Someone should tell Kerry he'd be better off not speaking. He should just show up for windsurfing photo ops.
I read that this morning.
The Herald is at times Schizo in my opinion, but that commentary was a bulls eye.
loathesome=loathsome
It begins with enforcement. Enforcement not just on the border, but enforcement against employers who are hiring people illegally, which is supposed to be illegal.”
Sure John, let's make capitalist businessmen criminals,
rather than deal with invaders.
I wish he'd stayed in Cambodia!
Kerry wouldn't think so!
Bump Tonkin, thanks for the ping.
The president has supported building a wall for over a year now, so if you have problems with the fact that a wall hasn't been built, take it up with Congress. He supported Sensenbrenner's suggestion to build a 700 mile wall, but Congress rejected it. Bush even signed legislation which funded the wall.
http://www.colum.edu/students/reservoir/studentlife/february2006/week1/borderfence0206.htm
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/3/115432.shtml
As an aside, although there are complaints that under this administration, employer fines have decreased for hiring illegal immigration, what seems to have gone unnoticed by the border hysterics is that it's because what was once a fine is now a CRIME.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041501049_pf.html
Some of the Governors don't want a fence. Why don't you attack them?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48017
And it is within the power of each Governor to call up the National Guard to defend the borders. But some Governors are opposed to that idea too.
And for those who are saying the war in Iraq is making it impossible for our National Guard to protect the country here, there are over 300,000 National Guardsmen and only 30,000 are in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The junior senator from massachusetts...
educated beyond his intelligence.
Of course Kerry can sit on a fence; they cored out his prostate.
How can we get the word to the Season Citizens about how their Social Security Money will be given to the old Geezers?
Dont worry. This will soon be what he calls, "The wrong fence at the wrong time and at the wrong place."
Isn't this book gonna be 'adapted' from the mooovie...? ...and... Don't all these nuts pretty much fall from the same tree?
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