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He’s not under fire from me.....he should use the “fire” to grill a steak and enjoy it.
We need 434 more like him in the house.
/for later
How come any number of Dems aren't under fire for their pro stance on abortion?
Seems to me DEATH is far worse than deportation, yes?
BTT!!!
Duncan Hunter is our modern day David Crockett.
Obama replaces Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2503185/posts
Cripes, the Founders wrote this stuff in simple English!
Its the only way to keep the illegal family together.
I am tired of paying for illegals and their brats. You hear that Narco Rubio.
Instead read "we found people who don't approve of what he has said". "The sky is 'blue'". So what?
The reality is that anchor babies and their illegal dependents are causing massive financial and criminal problems in our country.
Let’s address it and have a real conversation, not a PC, mamby-pamby jackoff session.
Amen to that! He ain't catching much flak from his constituents.
Well done Mr Hunter.
Wow. Those evil democrats would actually separate children from their parents?
And to top it all, the questioner called the children of aliens......”Natural Born Citizen children of illegal aliens...”
Hunter should have picked that up and restated the question.....the illegal alien children of illegal aliens should be deported with their parents......lolololol
Seems the opponents of the AZ law should stop spending all their time lying about and instead take the time to actually READ it.
Good for you Mr Hunter! Bout time we had real men/politicians with backbone who are not reduced to PC platitudes.
They should be.
Rude awakening coming for illegals! All Congress has to do is to define what the 14th amendment to make it so birthright only comes if your parents were here legally and viola` no more anchor babies!
Lacking the presidential support needed to enact their full immigration-enforcement program, House Republicans decided this fall to pass a separate bill: the Secure Fence Act (H.R. 6061), ordering the Department of Homeland Security to build the 700 miles of double fencing along the border.
On September 14, the bill passed the House, 283 to 138. Democratic leaders adamantly opposed it, and House Democrats voted against it, 131 to 64. Only six House Republicans opposed the bill.
Backed against a wall, so to speak, the Senate passed the bill, 80 to 19. Only one Republican—Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island—joined 18 Senate Democrats in opposition.
No sooner had the fence bill passed than some Senate Republicans started suggesting that the 700 miles of fence still might not be built. “It’s one thing to authorize. It’s another thing to actually appropriate the money and do it,” Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas told the Washington Post.
“I think there’ll be fencing where the Department [of Homeland Security] feels that it makes sense,” Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire told the paper. He estimated that “at least 300 to 400 miles” would be built.
But House Republicans did not stop fighting once they got the bill through Congress.
House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter, a California Republican whose district sits on the border, had been the original sponsor of the fence legislation when it was added as an amendment to the overall House immigration bill that had passed in December 2005. On October 6, he sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff informing him that the legislation did not suggest that the administration construct the fence, it ordered the administration to construct the fence.
“As a lead proponent of H.R. 6061, the Secure Fence Act, I am writing to clarify the intention of the legislation,” Hunter wrote. “Media reports have recently suggested that the directive for fence construction in the bill is optional. That is not the case. HR 6061 clearly states: ‘The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide for at least two layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors.’ While I worked with House and Senate leadership in reaching an agreement that will allow your department flexibility on the exact location of the at least 700 miles of fencing, its actual construction is not in dispute.”
To ensure Chertoff moved forward with the fence, Hunter noted that the fiscal 2007 Homeland Security funding law included language that will withhold $950 million from the department unless it presents a plan for building the fence within 60 days.
The day after Hunter sent Chertoff this letter, Hunter called a press conference at the U.S.-Mexico border. “The fence will be built,” Hunter told reporters. “This is not a recommendation. It’s a mandate by Congress.”
Bush started making surrender noises. At an October 12 press conference, he was asked whether he was going to build a real fence or a virtual one. “We are going to do both,” he said. “We’re just going to make sure we build it in spots where it works.”
Last week, Bush signed the Secure Fence Act into law. Some have objected that the bill does not go far enough, since the Mexican border is 2,000, not 700, miles long. They say, plausibly, that illegals will still sneak into the U.S. where double fencing and patrol roads are not built. Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R.-N.Y.), sponsor of the fence law, answered this objection in House floor debate. “We now have a 700-mile fence,” King said. “This is something which clearly can be done. It will work. Is it the entire fence? Absolutely not. More has to be done. But, in the meantime, let’s show progress. Let’s get this done.”
If Republicans retain control of the House, chairmen like Hunter and King will force Bush to build the fence already enacted in law and will push for additional fencing in new laws. A Republican House majority will continue to oppose amnesty.
However, if the Democrats take the House, they will not provide full funding for the fence and they will let Bush off the hook on building it. Illegal aliens will continue to flood unimpeded across our border. New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues in the House will join with John McCain and Teddy Kennedy in the Senate to give Bush the illegal-alien amnesty he seeks—and that a House Republican majority stubbornly refused to give him.