Posted on 10/15/2011 4:18:53 PM PDT by VinL
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally...
Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops “with real guns and real bullets” on the border to stop illegal immigration.
The remarks were among the most pointed yet by Mr. Cain about illegal immigration, and they come as he is enjoying a surge in national political polls on the back of his victory in a recent Florida straw poll..
It is not the first time that Mr. Cain has floated the idea of an electrified fence. He has told the story many times of a caller to his former radio show who chastised him for talking about building a border fence, saying that such an idea was impractical.
“It’s going to be 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on the top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying, ‘It will kill you — Warning.’” At an earlier rally, on the campus of Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tenn., he added that the sign would be written “in English and in Spanish.”
“This nation has always been a nation with wide open doors,” Mr. Cain said at the second rally. “We want to make it easy for people to come through the front door. And we’re going to shut off the back door so you don’t have to sneak into America.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Its gone but will live on. Thanks!
“Cain has always been one of my three choices to take down Willard. After this insane remark, I’m not sure Cain is qualified to be a pot hole inspector. “
I never knew we had so many fence-experts on this site...
Too many details!! He should have just promised something like “effective border control”; or even “an effective fence, amongst other measures to secure the border”. There are many ways to solve any problem. By giving specific details of his plan, he’s opened himself for attacks about his “means”, when the discussion should be focused on the “ends”. I’d call this a strategic error.
I am in total agreement with you on this one. The problem is these are federal issues.
“Electrocuting children and babies?
Certainly he’s not proposing that?
This has to be a joke.”
I agree, that would be ‘heartless’. Anyway, anyone dumb enough to expose their kid to that fence deserves to have them popped off.
This is why people have said he is in this to give Romney the nomination.
And the main home base for these wonderful aircraft is Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson.
I used to live in Sierra Vista
Az was not a state at the time of Geronimo and would have been exempt from Posse Comitatus.
It was a Territory, the Frontier at that time.
Did you know that most of the copper for the US’s first electric grid came from Az and that miners there at the time had to work by candlelight to mine the ore since they were a territory and not welcome to participate in the new marvel of national electricity?
Jimmy Carter made me a Republican from a family who had been Democrats since Jackson moved the Indians out of the hills of TN.
I was old enough to vote for Reagan in ‘84, (Dad did in 1980!) because of his America First governing.
I loved Reagan, but he was not perfect. His second biggest mistake was running away from Lebanon.
HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE WAS AMNESTY, INSTEAD OF DOUBLING DOWN ON AN OPERATION WETBACK! DOES ONE OF THOSE SPANISH SPEAKING MUSLIM TERRORISTS BEING TRAINED IN VENEZUELA RIGHT NOW HAVE TO SNEAK A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION ACROSS THE BORDER TO CLEAR YOUR THINKING? ARE YOU SOMEONE WHO BENEFITS DIRECTLY BY DEPRESSING WAGES FOR BLUE COLLAR JOBS? ARE YOU THAT ADDICTED TO CHEAP PRODUCE? DO YOU REALLY ENJOY CHEAP DOMESTIC/GARDENING HELP SO MUCH THAT YOU DO NOT CARE IF IT DESTROYS AMERICAN EDUCATION, MEDICAL CARE, AND CULTURE?
Sorry for the yelling, but if you’re a Reagan Man, stop sounding like Romney.
“If fences don’t work, why is there one around the White House?????”
Actually there wasn’t one at the beginning, but they needed it because too many people were trespassing.
(I agree...they still won’t get it...or more likely, won’t admit to getting it)
Not fence hole. POT hole!
As in dirty street and gutter inspector.
Not fence hole. POT hole!
As in dirty street and gutter inspector.
“There is not much appetite in the country for more amateur hour at the White House.”
EXACTLY, that’s why Perry tanked and Cain is in the lead.
I was planning on voting on Perry in the primaries but this changes things a little for me.
Exactly so, but facts be damned!
We got us a catch phrase!
We should make them afraid to vote against us ~ much better than asking them to vote for us while our lips are planted firmly around Democrat tush.
Absolutely!
Unfortunately, some people only have linear thinking skills and cannot think out of the box. Thus my tagline:
"Too many people are incapable of critical thinking. Common sense isn't common anymore."
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