Duncan Hunter, you are my hero.
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A bit more:
DOBBS: Troubling, also, Congressman Duncan Hunter. He pushed through his bill on the border fence. Today, after just meeting with the president, he said this legislation cuts his bill, the fencing provided for by his legislation, his law, that he got enacted last year, cuts it in half right off the bat.
We moved to what Secretary Michael Chertoff calls virtual border security and, you know, unfortunately the issues of border security and illegal immigration as you know are not virtual. They’re very real.
KYL: Yeah. Lou, could I shark (ph) the record here?
DOBBS: Sure.
KYL: Duncan Hunter is one of my very best friends. He is a great patriot and American and I helped him get through his very first border fence in the San Diego area a decade ago.
DOBBS: Smugglers’ gulch.
KYL: That’s right. this bill does not change his bill one iota. All it says is that until more than half of the 700 miles called for in his bill is built, nothing can happen here in the United States with the illegal immigrants are here. In other words, that’s part of the trigger. But it doesn’t stop with the 370 miles of fencing that have to be built. That is just the first step.
Yet I can actually believe that he is surprised. Bush seems to be a poor judge of character and expects that people will do their jobs better than they do when in positions where their beliefs don't match their duty.
In many ways Bush just seems to fall short of being a great president.
When it comes down to it, he is in charge, and it is his fault that the Executive branch is not only not making a reasonable attempt to enforce our immigration laws, but are not working to fulfill their border security obligations.
In the days following 9/11, I was proud to have voted for Bush. However, the days I am proud of him are getting fewer and farther between, while the days I am ashamed of him are getting more frequent.
This plan needs to be stopped in Congress, and we need to get a President and a legislature that will enforce our current immigration laws and secure the border rather than make a bad problem even worse under the disguise of reform.
Everyone email email email any Senator you can think of. Do it all weekend. Set a goal of 100. They are voting MONDAY!!!!!!
“What? Is Bush out of the loop?”
Not by a long shot is Bush out of the loop on this. He already speaks Spanish.