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Cain Proposes Electrified Border Fence
Pravda- NY Times Division ^ | 10/15/11 | Wyatt

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 ...


TOPICS: Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: New York
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To: mylife; BobL
Here in Fairfax County Virginia we regularly mark dangerous lakes, etc. with signs in 16 languages.

There was a drowning at Burke Lake some years back and the family weren't able to read any of the 16.

Stuff happens no matter how careful you are.

221 posted on 10/15/2011 5:31:42 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Flightdeck

A white picket fence with freekin Lasers on top.


222 posted on 10/15/2011 5:32:28 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TexMom7

Hate to tell you but the drug people normal kick them in the head, why bother with transportation.


223 posted on 10/15/2011 5:33:28 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrat)
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To: cookcounty

>> the lack of political experience is going to do him in

I think he’s indifferent to Political Correctness. But he still needs to understand the cost of being cavalier.


224 posted on 10/15/2011 5:33:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jet.)
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To: Porterville

“If he really said this then his rise is over.”

So, it’s open borders, no fence, no border patrol, with signs that say, ‘Come one, come all’...that’s what you want, eh? Maybe you need a candidate like O’Rom-Perry...more to your liking?


225 posted on 10/15/2011 5:33:59 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: dennisw

You have not been listening to what Perry has been saying or what he has been doing for the past several years. However, if the Feds don’t do their responsibility, then it is pretty much wasted effort.


226 posted on 10/15/2011 5:34:03 PM PDT by Grey Eagle
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To: Grey Eagle

He is telling a half truth.

Basically Perry said He could see an open border if Mexico would clean up its act and become law abiding.


227 posted on 10/15/2011 5:34:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

“Lets do it on YOUR LAND WITH YOUR MONEY”

Well, since I’m already paying their healthcare, ‘education’, and who knows what other services that they can get here in Texas, since we don’t ask immigration status...I’m game for paying for the fence, and yea, they can have my house and land (in Houston) if they want it (for whatever reason). I’ll just buy another.


228 posted on 10/15/2011 5:34:40 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for Perry is a vote for Romney)
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To: katieanna
I still haven’t heard anyone explain how you can build a fence on the Rio Grande River.

You really can't be that stupid?

229 posted on 10/15/2011 5:35:38 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mylife
Exactly so, but facts be damned! We got us a catch phrase!

That is where being a pizza salesman has it's advantages. People will eat anything, even a cardboard pizza, if you yell, "9.99!"

Perry should have just said:

"I favor The Israeli Strategy".


230 posted on 10/15/2011 5:35:48 PM PDT by Polybius (Defeating Obama should be Priority Number One.)
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To: jla
No, it's a game ender for the people who want sub-minimum wage employees with no rights. And you'd better believe you have no rights when your boss can threaten to turn you into ICE.

Now you can pretend that the slave wage employers are simply helping people to have a better life but many of us think they are engaged in predatory practices that should be subject to capital punishment.

So far I haven't seen any of you people on the other side propose any sort of compromise ~ like maybe executing only every other illegal employer, or simply sending them abroad themselves to Uganda perhaps to work as free labor on a vegetable farm.

231 posted on 10/15/2011 5:36:00 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: BobL

Have you contacted your congressman?
Did he vote for the in state tuition thing?

All but 4 in the state did, and that made the law veto proof.


232 posted on 10/15/2011 5:36:16 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

“You know it is a legal obstacle to placing federal troops on the border.”

I didn’t realize that we aren’t permitted to defend ourselves against foreign invasion. Link please.


233 posted on 10/15/2011 5:36:23 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for Perry is a vote for Romney)
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To: VinL

That river is Texas’ backyard. This land does not belong to the government. Private property rights, the right not to have government take property is one reason for the Declaration of Independence.

and our children live here. What an impractical idea,ridiculous

!


234 posted on 10/15/2011 5:37:22 PM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed:Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now, now. now!)
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To: mylife

apparently not, and either do most of the posters on this thread.


235 posted on 10/15/2011 5:37:22 PM PDT by Grey Eagle
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To: BobL

Have you contacted your congressman?
Did he vote for the in state tuition thing?

All but 4 in the state did, and that made the law veto proof.

As to Sanctuary cities, The Gov has nothing to do with those.
They are created by rogue mayors.


236 posted on 10/15/2011 5:37:41 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Polybius

These tunnel builders are well financed!


237 posted on 10/15/2011 5:38:08 PM PDT by marty60
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To: noprogs
I'm glad you finally saw the light. I'm a life long conservative and proud to have been stood with Ronald Reagan in 76, 80 and 84.

Stop the phony indignation, however. You've been a member of FR for 4 days. I've been here for 12 years and its a fact, FR is a Romney free zone, you clown. In my book Romney is the enemy. And if you want to electrify the border fence, you're an IDIOT!

Reagan's mistake wasn't pulling out of Lebanon. It was going in in the first place. And if Ted Kennedy hadn't gutted 2 of the 3 provisions of the IRCA of 1986, Reagan's plan to secure the borders and hold employers accountable with up to a million dollar fine would have worked and would ahve STOPPED most illegal border crossings in their tracks.

238 posted on 10/15/2011 5:38:28 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Williams

1/8th mile on our side should be fine.


239 posted on 10/15/2011 5:38:41 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: TexMom7

“Who is going to drag a baby across the desert and hang them on a fence, their caring parents,

drug cartels”

And we should let them in because of that. You’re so ‘heartful’.


240 posted on 10/15/2011 5:38:44 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for Perry is a vote for Romney)
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