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?
Way to go Gumby, spend billions to put up a desperately needed fence only to take it down a couple of years later. No process will ever stop illegal immigration period. He's just another typical run of the mill liberal.
Undoubtedly he was tricked by falsified intelligence reports into voting for the fence. If it wasn't for Bush falsely claiming, based on forged documents, that Nigerian uranium was going to be brought across the Mexican border to manufacture a dirty nuke, he undoubtedly would have went with his conscience and voted against the fence.
"When I strayed into Cambodia back during the Vietnam War and saw soldiers committing acts reminiscent of Genghis Khan I wished that they had a fence to keep me in the right country."
Sit back and watch John Kerry straddle the fence.
What existing fence in AZ? The occasional strand of barbed wire???
you know, those "fences" that even children can just hop over.
bttt
I can take 4 hours of John Kerry speeches and summarize it in 4 sentences without even having to bother listening through to the end.
Wow. And just imagine..............he thinks this all makes sense.........
That clarifies everything, now doesn’t it?
Clear as mud.
Thanks for the ping!
It is 370 miles of proposed fence to be built. There is 2500 miles left to go. You must remember, I say "proposed" because the money has not been allocated to go. With a fence, all you need is a ladder and you are over the fence. You you are going to build a fence it must be meaningful and solves the problem. I would be very impressed if they built something like Hadrian's wall the Romans built. That wall is still there today.
It's quite refreshing to see a politician who is so firm on his stands.
THE A**HOLE IS CERTIFIABLE I SWEAR...for it now and against it later...sounds familiar, hmmmmmmm??????? Maybe like a HUGE ACCORDIAN DOOR THINGY JOHNNIE-BOY??? We could open it back up when we get full of enough illegals, CRIMINENTLIES!!
BTTT
It's not that he's on the fence, we're used to that. It's how comfortable he looks on the picket. That's just plain wrong!
Sitting on the fence?
And me without my ol' .22 plinker!
That one seems to be a big hit, don't know who made it though as I didn't!!
Why are increased numbers of agents preferable to a fence, if the effect is the same?
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