[Dubya]

The fence issue is a tricky one for Texas elected officials in Washington, and particularly for Cornyn, who is up for re-election next year. On the one hand, Cornyn and other Texas congressional delegation members are pressing for increased border security. But they also are facing a huge wave of opposition to the fence from border officials and landowners who view it as the wrong approach to border security.

michelle.mittelstadt@chron.com

[RinaseaofDs]

Just build it.

[pissant]

Get the hell out of congress then Cornyn.

[SatinDoll]

Why are locals opposed to a fence? How many of them benefit from an open border allowing drug smuggling, the entry of illegal laborers, or something even worse? It is amazing how national security can take a backseat when an individuals personal gain is at stake.

[Bibman]

Thats quite a mouthful from one who helped cut the ribbon,
on a new International Bridge across the Rio, last year!

[Mister Da]

Whadaya bet there are people frantically searching the border area right now! For What? Mice, bugs, birds, plants, or anything else that might be “threatened” by the fence.

The fence will not be built ‘til most of Central America is north of the border. Then they’ll build it - to keep the slave labor from going back home!

[KingofZion]

what frickin “input” do they need? If you build it right on the border, there is no issue. just eminant domain the land for about 20meters in and you are all done. won’t split up anybody’s property, unless of course they own on both sides of the border. if so too bad.

[Right Wing Assault]

Hi, we’d like to build a fence at the end of your property for national defense. You say no? OK, sorry to trouble you.

[mo]

Well...the fence is where the rubber meets the road for Congress on this issue.....that’s why there all afraid of it....

[amihow]

Border dwellers are scared. They aren’t going to give honest input unless they can be anonymous.

[Redbob]

The RPOT called me asking for a contribution just a few minutes ago, citing particularly “our Senators’ championing opposition to the ‘Immigration Bill’” as a reason for supporting them.

But John Cornyn seems to flip-flop as badly as John Kerry on issues from the Ramos-Campean farce to immigration.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Lancey Howard]

While Chertoff said communities would be consulted "in terms of style" of fencing, he reiterated what he's long said: "We can't give border communities a veto."

Obviously. Once people slip across the border they can go to Maine or Oregon or Pennsylvania or anywhere else.

[azhenfud]

Those objections should fall in the same catagory as those from environmentalists whose endless objections delaying the construction were overridden by the law.

[ovrtaxt]

They won’t build anything of any significance.

The North American Union is too important to these people. More important than Iraq, apparently...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!

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