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Duncan Hunter, author of last year's border fence bill, reacts to this year's Senate compromise
The Hugh Hewitt Show ^ | 5-18-07

Posted on 05/18/2007 7:30:54 AM PDT by rob21

HH: Now, I’m joined by Congressman Duncan Hunter of the Armed Services Committee. Congressman Hunter, what do you make of the Senate deal?

DH: Well, from what we’ve seen of the deal, it’s a bad thing. I would, if I was president, I would veto it. And specifically, I wrote the law that mandates the 854 mile border fence, It’s been advertised as 700 plus miles, but if you add up the actual mileages that were mandated, these smugglers’ routes, it’s 854 miles.

HH: Is that double fencing, Congressman Hunter?

DH: That’s double fencing. 854 miles of double fencing, and you know it works in San Diego, it’s knocked back smuggling by more than 90%.

HH: Of course it works. When people tell me, you know, a ten foot fence, bring an eleven foot ladder, they’re idiots.

DH: Yeah. Well, you know, it’s interesting, the Governor of Arizona says that, and then she says in the same press conference, doggone those Californians, they fenced their areas, and now everybody’s coming through Arizona. So in one breath, she’s saying that the fence doesn’t work, and the second breath is it’s working too well.

HH: So what do you make of the idea that oh, we’re just going to use it as a trigger once the 350 miles are built, that will trigger something? I haven’t seen the text of the law. No one has. So I’m very, very skeptical, but what do you think?

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KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; bushamnesty; duncanhunter; immigration
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DH: You know, I think some folks in the administration have wanted to sit on the fence, literally, not build the fence, but sit on that program, drag their feet, until the Senate came with this bill, so that they could march them along together, because think about this. Six months ago, we passed a mandate to build 854 miles of fence. Why would it then be necessary for the Senate, six months later, to put in a provision saying this time, we really promise to build half the fence, if you couple that with a lot of benefits for folks that are here illegally? In other words, they used the conservative desire to get this border enforced, they held that back so that they could pair it up with what liberals want, which is to have lots of benefits for people that here illegally.

HH: I understand that, but then they didn’t give it to us, Congressman. I mean, that’s…

DH: No, they didn’t give us that, either.

HH: So why wouldn’t they?

DH: But I think they held the construction of the fence back so that that would be an enticement.

1 posted on 05/18/2007 7:30:57 AM PDT by rob21
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To: rob21

“But I think they held the construction of the fence back so that that would be an enticement.”
Duncan Hunter knows what the liberals are trying to do,
but it seems that more than a few “conservatives” are falling for the liberal’s plan.


2 posted on 05/18/2007 7:32:20 AM PDT by rob21 (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: rob21

Hugh’s agenda in his outrage is to promote Romney. Nothing more, nothing less.


3 posted on 05/18/2007 7:37:06 AM PDT by pissant
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To: rob21
Duncan Hunter and the few other conservative Republic loving Republicans left in the Congress, remind me of the Christ fearing preachers in the Episcopalian and Methodist churches that remain in the vain hope of changing from within.

It is time for Congressman Hunter and others to realize that the Republican party is now corrupt and liberal to it's core. The Olympia Snowes and Susan Collins of the party have taken over. It is time for conservatives to abandon the sinking ship and give life to the Constitution Party.

4 posted on 05/18/2007 7:40:45 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

I’m going to stick with the Republican party so that I can vote for Hunter in the primaries. Otherwise I would be done with this socialist party.


5 posted on 05/18/2007 7:44:19 AM PDT by rob21 (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

The Republican party is dying. Look at how Hunter is being treated by his own party! Hunter is the fighter the GOP needs and used to have. He is running at the right time and is the right man who make an outstanding President; a man of the times. I’m not liking the typical GOP being pushed as nominees yet again. It will be the same old, same old weak Republican response to Demonrat treason and mushy Republicans giving Demonrats issues like this that are destroying our country from the inside. Our country cannot withstand such ‘leadership’.


6 posted on 05/18/2007 7:47:26 AM PDT by bushfamfan (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRES. IN 2008)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
No, it's time for goodconservative republicans to get behind Hunter

gohunter08.com

7 posted on 05/18/2007 8:12:58 AM PDT by RichardMoore (gohunter08.com)
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To: bushfamfan
Go to

gohunter08.com

to see how you can help.It takes more than money to win. The time to act is now!

8 posted on 05/18/2007 8:14:43 AM PDT by RichardMoore (gohunter08.com)
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To: rob21
Why is this fence erected if real fences do not work?

Why not only a "virtual fence" here? And what about the barricades around the Capitol? Why not virtual barricades?

9 posted on 05/18/2007 8:15:04 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: rob21
We have to do more than vote in the primary

gohunter08.com

Checkit out.

10 posted on 05/18/2007 8:15:59 AM PDT by RichardMoore (gohunter08.com)
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To: rob21

I hope that this give Hunter a much needed bump in the media.

I don’t think he has much hope to get the Presidential nomination, but I still like him as a VP, especially if Rudy gets the top slot.

I don’t see McCain being nominated by anyone but the media, especially after helping draft this amnesty bill.


11 posted on 05/18/2007 8:55:22 AM PDT by Saint Louis
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To: Saint Louis

Hunter would never be a VP for Rudy. He would also never let Rudy be his VP. Duncan Hunter is a true conservative, and there’s no reason for him to share a ticket with that radical liberal.


12 posted on 05/18/2007 8:57:13 AM PDT by rob21 (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: rob21; B4Ranch; kattracks; dittomom; Clemenza; Calpernia; AuntB; pissant
HH: Your reaction [to McCain's statement], Congressman Duncan Hunter?

DH: Yeah, first, there hasn’t been a focus on security, because a focus on security would have mandated the construction of a border fence immediately. We could have put it up in six months. So people did not care in the Senate or in the White House about border security.

Truer words...

13 posted on 05/18/2007 10:26:40 AM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Paul Ross

Hunter sure knows how to get the truth out about immigration. I like the guy.


14 posted on 05/18/2007 11:10:06 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: rob21

And after the primary?


15 posted on 05/18/2007 11:40:05 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: RichardMoore

And after the rinos destroy Hunter? What then? Are you going to stay in the party of Collins, snowe, rockefeller, and Bush?


16 posted on 05/18/2007 11:42:09 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: bushfamfan
The Republican party is dying.

Dying? Kennedy has a better record of getting things passed than Hunter does. Wake up, the Republican party is dead. What is left is a slightly less left wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat.

Was not this immagration bill enough to convince you?

17 posted on 05/18/2007 11:44:47 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

I think that Hunter has a good chance of winning the nomination. There are still enough conservatives out there to vote for him, we just need to make sure that we get Hunter’s name out there and he’ll win.


18 posted on 05/18/2007 11:56:26 AM PDT by rob21 (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: rob21

Just listening to Laura Ingraham. A caller was saying Hunter is the best.

Laura said, “I LOVE DUNCAN HUNTER!”


19 posted on 05/18/2007 2:56:05 PM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: rob21

I will be voting in the Republican primary, but, if a rino wins, I’m outa the R’s and into the Constitution party!


20 posted on 05/18/2007 4:08:09 PM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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