Posted on 01/21/2009 12:14:52 PM PST by BGHater
Federal bureaucrats call it the "border fence." The residents along the Texas-Mexico border say it's a wall echoing the Cold War. And south of the Rio Grande,Governor Humberto Moreira of the Mexican state of Coahuila has dubbed it a "wall of hate."But no matter what the controversial barrier being constructed between Mexico and the U.S. is called,the $1.6 billion,670-mile-long first phase is close to completion as President Barack Obama enters office.
And for Obama,who voted for the border-fence bill back in 2006, the barrier may be best described as a big potential headache. Opponents are already appealing to him to halt construction and re-evaluate the project. But so far, the new Administration has given no indication that it is seriously considering doing so. While it has said it will make comprehensive immigration reform a priority, a spokesperson told TIME that Obama supports the fence "as long as it is one part of a larger strategy on border security that includes more boots on the ground and increased use of technology."
This, despite repeated pleas from border Democratic officeholders,residents with family and business ties on both sides of the river,and conservationists who fear their 30-year effort to string parcels of land into a necklace of treasured preserves for native fauna and flora will be destroyed as the acreage ends up in a riverside no-man's-land. On Wednesday, Obama's first day in office, advocates of immigration reform are holding a rally in Washington in which a multisectarian group of religious leaders will give the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Building a ritualistic cleansing to highlight the call to end workplace immigration raids and the construction of the border fence. (See pictures of the fence between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Somebody explain to ‘the residents along the border’ the difference between incarceration and security please, STAT.
“a wall echoing the Cold War”
Yeah yeah, yawn.
Gorbachev tried that line on Reagan. Reagan had none of it. The berlin wall was to keep people IN an evil system they didn’t want to be a part of.
won't do the border gun control they apparently desire by building their own fence.
It should be called the DUNCAN HUNTER GIFT TO AMERICA FENCE, as least the portions that are double fence with a Border patrol road.
McCain will provide Obama a lot of political cover on this issue. He will carry Obama’s amnesty water like a good boy and Obama will tell the American people: “see, McCain is pushing amnesty so you’d have gotten it no matter which party won the presidency.”
Honestly, the bad economy may be the most effective anti-amnesty tool we have.
Stealing the jobs Americans used to have.
We can't even count on that either!
These illegals are just going to do whatever it takes to stay here... MS-13 is expanding throughout the USA.
I mean if you had a choice of staying here or going back to Central or South America; would you go?
They're gonna receive free medical care, food stamps, housing assistance & free education for sure...especially for the next four years at least!
They need to build the fence faster, bigger and stronger, with machine gun emplacements every 100 yards.
All hell may be about to break loose in Mexico and they will flood our border like a tidal wave.
Maybe people will get a clue if we stop using words like ‘gangs’ while referencing MS 13 and call them what they are, foreign funded insurgents or terrorists.
You left out “scum of the earth”
Duncan Hunter was on Hannity’s TV program the other evening.
To bad others didn’t have a clue to supported him in the Presidential primaries last year.
I guess the PaleoCons didn’t like him because he supported
the was against the Terrorists.
It is their loss.
Yes I did. Terms like that ususally get labeled for dismissal as hate speech to mask the true meaning. If we use the true meaning, like foreign terrorist cells, maybe the message would sink in.
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Good. I hope it is labeled ‘hate speech’. Because I HATE the scum of the earth terrorists/criminals and the scumbag commie politicians and libtards who enable them to run around unfettered in our nation
I do too.
It is just the MSM has made hate speech a type of area denial where people shut off further info. But have lent more justification for action to the terms insurgents when they report on war news.
People can’t seem to get the fact that these are insurgents and we are being invaded.
That’s why I hate the MSM as well. They tear this country down and lie 365 days a year. Hopefully, their demise will accelerate.
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