Illegal immigration has been neglected for so long that it is now political suicide to oppose it.
The GOP will now fully embrace the abolition of the border and integration with Mexico.
There's not going to be a fence. No money, no fence.
Sad, but true.
The fence that won't be built --- not a REAL fence, anyway. Not with the present crowd in the White House and the Congress....
When and if we ever get a President and a Congress that want to STOP THE ILLEGAL INVASION, you will see a fence. Not until then.
The fence will not go up!......
The time to build the fence was rieght after 9/11, we had our chance, we blew it, now get ready for the hordes of illegals swinging even more elections to democrats.
The slippery slope towards socialism has begun.
What fence? There's never going to be a fence. Nothing's been allocated to build it and now nothing ever will. we were played for fools. Better brush up on my Spanish.
I think the underlying import is that the Country Clubber Republicans, the same ones who call the Minutemen vigilantes and sniff at the idea of standing up to the racist bullies of the Left have helped them undercut the effort - this was a political play to mullify any effect the issue of illegal immigrants might have had on the elections.
Im beginning to think the states part of the southern half of the US need to declare war on the limp-wristed influence of the Northeastern Pubbies.
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This is why the GOP should listen to Michael Savage and not Hugh Hewitt. As soon as the border bill passed, Savage was on the air to warn listeners not to take it seriously until it was funded. Then the next day, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Aztlan) said that the bill was only symbolic and "would never be funded". Only superficial thinkers like Hewitt thought the issue died with the fence bill. Minuteman supporters and true anti-illegal conservatives were not fooled by this posturing. We knew that without funding attatched, the bill was a cynical attempt to buy our votes.
Then of course a few weeks later, Herr Gonzales' Gestapo railroaded the two border agents for 12 years in jail for shooting a verminous drug dealer in the ass. The rage over that conviction--coming just days before the election--cannot be understated. Savage covered it. Hewitt, Rove and everyone else ignored it.
Forget it. Not one foot will ever be built.
" have been a skeptic of the power of the issue based on last fall's special election in which Congressman John Campbell easily bested Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist depsite national focus on and support for Gilchrist by the anti-illegal immigration movement. "
Whatever happened to "just doing what's right" vs. wrangling for votes, power, etc.
We are in a sad shape.
the fence concept is bullsh!t pure and simple - otherwise our mexican loving Kongress wouldn't have passed it and Jorje Bush wouldn't have signed it. You don't keep cockroaches out of your kitchen by building a fence aroudn your kitchen - they come through. The only way to get rid of illegal immigration is to remove the incentives to come here
There are two types of incentives - government and private. Government incentives include welfare, medical care for the ninos, and GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING for th children. Get rid of these and get rid of the anchor baby concept and you'll go a lot farther to reducing illegal immigration than a fence. Private incentives need to be gotten rid of too - require all employers to check immigration status of all hispanic workers. Provide prompt response from government agencies on the checks. MAKE THE USE OF FORGED DOCUMENTS PUNISHABLE BY JAIL TIME. The forgeries are good, and can fool almost everyone.
The fence is a boondoggle and a lightning rod designed to distract attention from effective measures to stem illegal immigration.
They can continue to have jobs and continue to add more largess to another FAILED government agency.
Better start learning spanish because that is what we are headed for.
To summarize this article:
70% of the electorate opposes illegal alien floods.
Building a fence will be a good smokescreen to shut this majority up.
Once that is done, we can ignore any enforcement actions, since the sheep will be placated.
We can then go on with amnesty and a renewed flood of illegals that make the Chamber of Commerce and the Wall Streeters happy and profits big.
Left out of this equation:
The illegals won't vote Republican, they will vote for welfare state Democrats and fellow Hispanics (see Los Angeles mayor and city council).
America will devolve into Honduras, with no middle class, a huge indentured working poor, and a vastly wealthy elite.
Final irony: George Bush and Karl Rove will be retiring to Tejas in the new Peoples Republic of Aztlan. Hugh Hewitt and Chavez and Kristol and Kondrake and all the highly paid talking heads will be replaced by guys named Jorge and Ramon talking only Spanish.
Sorry Hugh, there's not gonna be a fence. Doesn't fit into the "global plan" of the CFR.
One more reason I don't like the squishy Hugh Hewitt.