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
Call your reps tomorrow bump!
“I am amazed at how blatently they now ignore us.”
They forget they work for us (for now).
“They forget they work for us (for now).”
Ah yes, but come re-election time they can usually count on the “You think I suck, but you think the dem candidate sucks more” vote. And up to this point they are correct. But the day is fast approaching when we are getting fed up enough to not care about that at all.
Vote the RINOs out in the primaries, and bring your friends.
BUMP
Hon. Sen. Hutchison:
I would like to register my disgust upon learning that you attached S.Amdt. 2466 to the recent appropriations bill which effectively gutted the construction of a border fence.
Just what is is about ILLEGAL immigration that you and your fellow congressmen don’t comprehend? It is the responsibility of the federal government to defend our borders and nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. The assault on our nation by illegal immigrants is beyond discussion. The costs borne by taxpayers to support this subversion of our nation’s soverneignty is unsustainable. How many hospitals have to close or cut out necessary services as they struggle to remain financially solvent due to uncompensated care mandated by the federal government on behalf of those who openly violate our laws. In Dallas alone, a tremendous proportion of births are to illegal foreigners - playing the “have a baby in the US lotto” - and they are winning because they do not pay for this care, the taxpayers of Dallas county do, and they leave with a ticket to stay in the US with their newly created US citizen.
Crimes committed by illegals leave victims in misery or worse, and place a tremendous strain on our prison and legal system.
No other country would allow those who violate their laws to benefit from their lawbreaking as you and your collegues in Washington allow.
The citizens of Texas are fed up with attitudes such as you displayed with this attachment, and will not forget your support for illegals at the expense of law abiding residents. I suspect and sincerely hope that any aspirations you had for the governorship of Texas will be forever dashed by such disregard for the concerns and desires of voting Texans!
I’m not holding my breath waiting for a response...but will probably get a stock ... thank you for your concern BS template response as always.... this voter will never support her or others who so blatantly disregard the will of the governed!
Hon. Sen. Hutchison:
I would like to register my disgust upon learning that you attached S.Amdt. 2466 to the recent appropriations bill which effectively gutted the construction of a border fence.
Just what is is about ILLEGAL immigration that you and your fellow congressmen don’t comprehend? It is the responsibility of the federal government to defend our borders and nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. The assault on our nation by illegal immigrants is beyond discussion. The costs borne by taxpayers to support this subversion of our nation’s soverneignty is unsustainable. How many hospitals have to close or cut out necessary services as they struggle to remain financially solvent due to uncompensated care mandated by the federal government on behalf of those who openly violate our laws. In Dallas alone, a tremendous proportion of births are to illegal foreigners - playing the “have a baby in the US lotto” - and they are winning because they do not pay for this care, the taxpayers of Dallas county do, and they leave with a ticket to stay in the US with their newly created US citizen.
Crimes committed by illegals leave victims in misery or worse, and place a tremendous strain on our prison and legal system.
No other country would allow those who violate their laws to benefit from their lawbreaking as you and your collegues in Washington allow.
The citizens of Texas are fed up with attitudes such as you displayed with this attachment, and will not forget your support for illegals at the expense of law abiding residents. I suspect and sincerely hope that any aspirations you had for the governorship of Texas will be forever dashed by such disregard for the concerns and desires of voting Texans!
I’m not holding my breath waiting for a response...but will probably get a stock ... thank you for your concern BS template response as always.... this voter will never support her or others who so blatantly disregard the will of the governed!
Sorry about the double post!!!
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