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 ...
Because it is the law in the state of Texas and he upholds the law.
He made it perfectly clear that it was an education issue and that he would never suggest it on a National Level.
That law will probably be reversed in all the states that have it once the border is secured. It will then become mute point and a non issue.
It’s the treaties in place. There would be far reaching consequences if broken.
I know one thing, this issue has brought out the lunatic fringe of the party.
Well that sounds heartless to me, electrocuting people?
Yep . You are rigjt. I must really have lived an isolated life since I have never driven thru Illinois as you have done.
Please learn me some.
Actually, it’s the Democrats who want to have our options for legally dealing with illegals so constrained internally that we will be reduced to land mines and machine guns at the border.
Meanwhile Obama sends US troops into the heart of Africa.
The MSM, and everybody else pro-leftist, will do anything and everything to destroy Herman Cain’s chances for political victory. The worst of it hasn’t even happened yet.
They work great!!!!
At first, I thought this whole thread was a joke, a trick. Then I read your comment and realized that you people are for real! GOD help you, I can't fathom the kind of hatred and "heartlessness" that could make someone say such a thing.
I guess I was picturing more like the Jurrassic park fence rather than one for my dog.
BTW, there is NO RISK OF WAR WITH MEXICO.
...and to you, my FRiend!!!
My mistake, It did not pass. I lose track with all of the Good legislation and ideas that he has introduced.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/15/2267498/texas-senate-passes-sanctuary.html
much ado about a joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfpU19hWfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiO2VjbDLaA
Don’t make me get my soap box out!!
I’m afraid who the real enemy is.
OooooRah!
we forget
Wow did you SEE THAT?
That unicorn had a rainbow coming out its butt!
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