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--"Start buildin' that damned fence NOW, or I'LL build you one."
Posted on 12/18/2007 1:34:32 PM PST by pissant
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2007
CONTACT: Gary Becks (619) 334-1655, dlhunter08@yahoo.com
Washington, D.C.–Presidential candidate Congressman Duncan Hunter returned to Washington this morning to immediately begin his efforts to overturn provisions contained in a Democratic spending bill that eliminates current legal requirements for double-layered border fencing. Congress last year passed legislation authored by Hunter, the Secure Fence Act, mandating double-layered fencing and related infrastructure at strategic entry points along the Southwest border.
“Now is the time when those who take the threat to our nation’s borders seriously stand up and be counted,” said Hunter. “Last year, Congress successfully passed legislation that mandated a double fence requirement based on the success of the border fence we’ve built in San Diego. The Democrat majority in this Congress has taken it upon themselves to overturn federal law to pursue a policy that does nothing but harm our border enforcement capabilities. This is not leadership, it is irresponsibility.
“Border enforcement is too serious of an issue to pursue only when politically convenient at election time. If Congress is to reverse its border stance after just one year, what message does that send to illegal immigrants and drug smugglers who are watching to see how serious we are about protecting America’s borders? I believe we must uphold our nation’s immigration laws, support our agents serving on the border and protect our border communities and I am going to make every effort to overturn the damage this Democrat leadership has caused.”
H.R. 2764, a bill that provides funding for several federal departments and agencies, was brought to the House floor and passed late last evening by the Democratic leadership. Not only does the bill contain provisions removing all specific locations as outlined by the Secure Fence Act, it also removes all requirements to construct any fencing or physical barriers along the border. This action basically repeals the Secure Fence Act and undermines past efforts to secure our nation’s border.
H.R. 2764 has been referred to the Senate for consideration and then will be returning to the House with any changes in the form of a conference report. Congressman Hunter is working with his colleagues in both the House and Senate to ensure that these dangerous provisions do not remain in the final version of the funding bill.
please kindly sling it between yourselves offline, by Freepmail or whatever, if possible, and free up the thread. ;-) thanks
--"Start buildin' that damned fence NOW, or I'LL build you one."
What? for you to invent more silly new words??? Phhhhhhhht!!!
the “right” coment was meant for you! ;-)
Did any of the major talk radio folks pick it up today?
It seems another prairie fire needs to be engineered on this issue. It was only a matter of time that, once the spotlight was off, they would pull such hijinks. Is it any wonder why Congressmen are a little more popular than telemarketers and spammers.
I am searching the Hispanic press to see how they are spinning this Border Fence issue and the de-funding of it. Outrageous.
hehehe...I noticed that, but only after I posted it back (usually I “fix” the typos w/o comment)....oops.
The old fence: 
I watched and skimmed the network news tonight, not a peep about this. I strongly believe Businesses do not want the fence. Big business has a lot of powerful lobbyists in WA, and they, for this reason, will not give Congressman Hunter any media play if they can help it. He is against NAFTA, CAFTA, and free trade (he prefers fair trade) and he demands a border fence, which all happens to be what America wants, too. Even FOX, is on the side of the stick market and big business. THAT is why we aren’t seeing the fence, why Hunter isn’t “allowed†access to the greater American public via the media, and why the GOP isn’t even mentioning him. It’s a big mistake by all concerned. I pray for Divine intervention, and that more Americans will inform themselves about this very important election before they vote. Because obviously, he will get no help from the RNC, or any of the media!
From El El Diario, front page, just now:
"Cámara Representantes de EU aprueba fondos para 'muro' fronterizo 18 Diciembre 2007 Actualizado: 01:08 PM hora de Cd. Juárez Reuters Washington— La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos aprobó el presupuesto para seguridad fronteriza, de mil 600 millones de dólares, que incluye fondos para la construcción de vallas en los límites con México destinadas a frenar la inmigración ilegal. Los legisladores aprobaron ayer por la noche la construcción en el 2008 de 595 kilómetros de cercas en la porosa frontera sur, según lo solicitado por el Departamento de Seguridad Interior estadounidense. La ley no especifica en cuáles puntos de la frontera deben ser construidas, lo que quedará a criterio de las autoridades migratorias."
I guess the battle cry would be "La Costa es Claro" (the coast is clear)
Here’s how it reads in English:
“”Camera Representing of EU approves bottoms for ‘ walled border 18 Updated December 2007: 01:08 p.m. hour of CD Juárez Reuters Washington the House of Representatives of the United States approved the budget for border security, of thousand 600 million dollars, that include bottoms for the construction of fences in the limits with Mexico destined to restrain illegal immigration. The legislators approved yesterday at night the construction in the 2008 of 595 kilometers of fences in the porous South border, according to the solicitd thing by the Department of American Inner Security. The law criterion of the migratory authorities does not specify in which points of the border they must be constructed, which will have left.”
po-zest
Looks like a scene from the Exorcism of Emily Rose!
Hey - but we are OK. Post an "after - after" pic. I was at the Pentagon 2 months ago. It looks beautiful!
American cannot be defeated (by an outside enemy). Internal enemies, however - are a different matter.
Abe Lincoln was right.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abe Lincoln
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
President Ronald Reagan:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States
where men were free."
I haven’t made a definite decision yet, still time to go.
Thanks for all the pings.
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