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HUTCHISON Amendment (#218) would fund 2,000 border agents.
Thomas ^ | 3-17-05 | Senator HUTCHISON

Posted on 03/17/2005 7:03:53 AM PST by OXENinFLA

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To: deport

Thanks for the link


61 posted on 03/17/2005 9:44:28 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to the Media/Press ... Why are you hiding the Eason Jordan tapes ????)
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To: HiJinx
But I hope you can see the wisdom of the argument that you cannot have a solution to illegal immigration that either ignores the border problem

And who has said it should?

62 posted on 03/17/2005 9:47:52 AM PST by Howlin (Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
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To: Mo1

Bingo! These types of irrational ideas are what most FReepers are opposed to, not to effective border control. I have yet to see anyone here support "open borders" or allowing illegals to come into the U.S. but it doesn't stop some from accusing others of just that because they oppose violent solutions.


63 posted on 03/17/2005 9:57:42 AM PST by COEXERJ145
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To: HiJinx

""The groups "are completely in violation of American law itself and in violation of laws anywhere," Fox said.""

This is the thought that confuses and infuriates me when Fox was talking about the minuteman project. What laws are they breaking? If you have read the page, it is to be a peaceful reporting of ILLEGALS crossing. There is nothing unlawful about that. He should read our constitution and amendments before he starts spouting about them breaking the law. Ridiculous!


64 posted on 03/17/2005 10:04:48 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: COEXERJ145

The only people I've seen use the words "open borders" are the ones calling anybody who doesn't agree with their agenda "open border lovers."


65 posted on 03/17/2005 10:08:30 AM PST by Howlin (Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
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To: deport
Thank you for the link to President Reagan's speech, Deport.

He is a man who will be remembered fondly by history.

66 posted on 03/17/2005 10:10:01 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: COEXERJ145

Yep!


67 posted on 03/17/2005 10:11:38 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to the Media/Press ... Why are you hiding the Eason Jordan tapes ????)
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To: COEXERJ145; Happy2BMe
Every BP agent who went to Iraq volunteered to go.

Good, now why were they not replaced by other alphabet soup pseudo-LEOs we don't need?

Why should anyone in the FedGov outside of the FBI, Border Patrol, and Secret Service need a gun? If it is that high an enforcement priority, they can take it to the FBI (or, better yet, the local sheriff) for armed support.

68 posted on 03/17/2005 10:11:42 AM PST by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending.)
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To: Wallace T.
She did well here, but she is no conservative

What is her lifetime ACU rating?

69 posted on 03/17/2005 10:11:49 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state, and a former Army Red Leg.)
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To: deport

Please do not confuse the fools with the facts.


70 posted on 03/17/2005 10:14:18 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state, and a former Army Red Leg.)
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To: OXENinFLA

BTTT


71 posted on 03/17/2005 10:32:26 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: OXENinFLA

The thing is, is that Bush just cut the funds to the border patrol. Is this just replacing already cut funds? and man power? or are we still on the losing end?


72 posted on 03/17/2005 10:35:30 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

Her lifetime ACU rating is 91, but her 2003 and 2004 ratings were 75 and 84, respectively, not a good trend. She is sound on defense and basically OK on tax and economic issues. However, she is somewhat weak on social issues, being pro-abortion and favoring NEA funding.


73 posted on 03/17/2005 10:46:19 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
Have you read the 75% ratings year? Of the four votes that lost her the 25% it is easy as a Texan to agree with her on two and one was meaningless at the time.

Please feel free however to explain how a 90% + rating means she's no real conservative.

74 posted on 03/17/2005 10:52:13 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state, and a former Army Red Leg.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Conservatism in the American sense rests upon certain principles: governmental, economic, and moral/cultural. With respect to government, it generally adheres to the Jeffersonian adage that the best government is the least government. It also emphasizes national sovereignty and American interests over international law or multilateral treaties. The economic principles of conservatism are based on free market economics, whether of the classical, Chicago, or Austrian schools. The market, not the state, best represents the interests of the people. Moral and cultural conservatism recognizes the importance of the permanent principles of Judeo-Christian morality. Limited government can only be supported by a moral people, as even Deists and Unitarians like Benjamin Franklin and John Adams acknowledged.

Her weakest area is the moral and cultural aspects of conservatism. This was most evident in her vote to affirm the fundamental soundness of the Roe v. Wade decision in 2003. Despite its overturn of centuries of opposition to abortion in both Anglo-American common law and the statutes of all 50 states before 1960, and the Supreme Court's detection of a nonexistent Constitutional "Right to Privacy" with regard to this type of infanticide, she recorded her decision in favor of Roe v. Wade.

All that said, Kay Hutchison would probably be a better governor than Rick Perry. She may do a better job of preserving the Republican franchise on restraint on state budgets, taxes, and agency overreach than Perry has. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, a person who supports your position 80% of the time should be considered an 80% friend, not a 20% enemy.

75 posted on 03/17/2005 11:25:57 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: OXENinFLA

To what bill is she adding this amendment?


76 posted on 03/17/2005 11:38:22 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: deepFR; OXENinFLA

The real action will come when illegal aliens are barred from judicial review, held indefinitely until deportation, and deported within a week of their capture.

Then, of course, there should be a no excuse policy for felons hiring illegals and fines set to financially incapacitate them along with mandatory minimums of ten years' imprisonment.


77 posted on 03/17/2005 11:38:36 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: Ben Ficklin
To what bill is she adding this amendment?

The Budget Bill..

S. Con. Res. 18,

78 posted on 03/17/2005 11:43:22 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA

Thanks


79 posted on 03/17/2005 12:26:23 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: OXENinFLA

Bump for later read


80 posted on 03/17/2005 1:51:09 PM PST by volvox (The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitudes towards them.)
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