Posted on 12/17/2007 8:48:52 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
MAXWELL, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill includes a little-known provision that guts the major provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This provision -- buried on page 123 of Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act - contradicts the Secure Fence Act’s specific mandate of a double-layer fence covering 854 miles of the U.S-Mexico border.
Grassfire.org has been tracking this provision which was first introduced quietly by Sen. Hutchison this summer as S.Amdt. 2466 to H.R. 2368 (the DHS appropriations bill). “The Hutchison amendment gives DHS virtually total discretion over how and where the fence is built,” says Grassfire.org President Steve Elliott. “In fact, DHS would not be required to build fencing in any particular location -- and the double-layer mandate is totally gone.”
In its report on the “Fence Funding Hoax,” Grassfire has chronicled how the plan to gut the Secure Fence Act was actually hatched the day the bill passed the Senate in 2006. (View that report.) “I find it odd that such an important amendment which releases DHS from specific requirements of an existing law would be passed by a simple voice vote in the Senate and then buried in the massive omnibus bill,” says Elliott. “The American people reasonably expect that a double-layer fence will be built but Congress has always had other plans. This amendment should be stripped from the final omnibus bill.”
Resources:
Text of omnibus bill: http://www.rules.house.gov/110_fy08_omni.htm
(To view Hutchison Amendment, select “Division E” and view page 123)
Grassfire.org’s special report on the Funding Hoax:
http://www.firesociety.com/article/19402/
For more information about Grassfire.org, or to schedule an interview with Grassfire President Steve Elliott, contact Ron De Jong at 757-487-7900 or email ron@grassfire.org
Maybe. I know he is connected to CNN and Time Warner.
I have worse tin foil for you. Remember Curt Weldon and Able Danger? If you followed that closely (I did), you may want to take the time to read this:
http://www.opednews.com/duncan_011205_NJ_Terrorism_Michael_Chertoff.htm
New Jersey and Terrorism…Perfect Together
This is when Chertoff was OUR NJ Attorney General.
Yeppers. I am amazed at how blatently they now ignore us.
The fencing provisions were just to get the amnesty through and now that there's no amnesty, there's no need for the fence to quiet us conservatives down.
People keep saying that this is a Democrat congress and Senate. That's not actually true. It's still pretty close to half and half.
The dems can only work their evil with GOP connivance. And there's plenty of that.
They'll NEVER build a fence or put other protections of that border in place. and when the next terror attack happens, if it's proven that they came across the borders, the GOP will die cause it happened on their watch.
Funny you would mention Weldon and AD. Before stopping at FR tonight I was going over something I had written several months ago...about Weldon and AD!
I will read your link.
night
Wasn’t it Lott who bragged VERY early on that the funding for the fence would be gutted?
So the DHS spent the fence money on a Boeing program that didn’t work? Who paid whom off here I wonder?
And then, if Perry is not VP for Rudy, KBH appoints Perry to the Senate and he gets to run as an incumbent in 2012. It's a nice little do-se-do of RINO's.
I will vote for neither of them for any office and will actively support any credible primary opponent.
G’night. I will probably have nightmares now and I’m only halfway through.
Yep! It certainly is shaping up to look that way...and not just in Texas!
I am so mexicanned out. Wake me when its time for Operation Extraction.
Until a nuke goes off that can be directly tied to a group known to have come across from mexico, we’re going to be the unwilling hosts for as many parasites as can possibly crawl into the country. After the nuke, it'll be the direct action of fed up citizens that will force the governments hand.
America is bleeding out from a thousand different wounds and there’s not a damned legal thing we can do to stop it.
Or like you suggested up on the thread may have already been spent.
I’d like to know where the money went if that is the case.
I think we all knew no fence was ever going to go up.
From the Omnibus bill:
. “(A) REINFORCED FENCING.-In carrying
out subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall construct reinforced fencing
along not less than 700 miles of the southwest
border where fencing would be most practical
. and effective and provide for the installation of
additional physical barriers, roads, lighting,
cameras, and sensors to gain operational control
of the southwest border.”
“(D) LIMITATION ON REQUIREMENTS.Notwithstanding
subparagraph (A), nothing in
this paragraph shall require the Secretary of
Homeland Security to install fencing, physical
barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors
in a particular location along an international
border of the United States, if the Secretary determines
that the use or placement of such resources
is not the most appropriate means to
achieve and maintain operational control over
the international border at such location.”; and
From Hutchinson’s website:
“Sen. Hutchison has supported efforts to increase funding for personnel, technology, and equipment to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Senate recently passed H.R. 2638, the DHS Appropriations bill, which provides additional resources to DHS and includes her amendment, #2466, providing DHS the flexibility they need to ensure that local border patrol sector chiefs and community leaders are working together on border issues.”
http://hutchison.senate.gov/pr091907a.html
Apparently the omnibus bill has already passed. This lies and maneuvering of these low life’s is amazing. They have no shame.
Throughout the amnesty/immigration debates, Hutchinson was mealy mouthing, usually voting for security, but introducing amendments and making speeches that showed she really didn’t want meaningful border enforcement.
It’s time for a revolution!
“Apparently the omnibus bill has already passed.”
Or maybe not. I think it’s in the House/Senate conference committee.
Omnibus Bill Includes Border Fence-Gutting Amendment (This is outrageous!!!)....
any wonder why jorge bush is so anxious to sign it.....
jorge’s legacy ~ los estados de unidos de meximerica!!!!
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