Fact Sheet: The Secure Fence Act of 2006
President Bush has done more than any president before him in recent history to secure our border. Much work needs to be done, but he deserves credit for starting to confront the problem that has been getting worse for decades.
Am I correct that the bill/fence is not yet funded?
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Read the fact sheet. This is better, but not there yet. "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Requires That We Reduce The Pressure On Our Border By Creating A Lawful Path For Foreign Workers To Enter Our Country On A Temporary Basis." Sorry, W, we don't want immigration reform, comprehensive or otherwise. We want the borders closed and the lawbreakers out of our country. End welfare and we will have all the pickers we need.
"President Bush has done more than any president before him in recent history to secure our border. Much work needs to be done, but he deserves credit for starting to confront the problem that has been getting worse for decades"
Yes, let's give credit where it is due.
I am sick of all the naysayers who said he wouldnt sign it yadda yadda yadda... we have a victory now let's celebrate it!
IT'S...ABOUT...F***ING...TIME.
Thank you, Mr. President. I'm glad you've been listening to us!
**** I WILL NOT BELIEVE IT UNTIL I SEE IT *****
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Bush is FOS! The President should've closed our borders right after 9-11 and immigration reform should have been a top priority for the GOP five years ago. Now, two weeks before the election Bush and the GOP leadership are attempting to hoodwink Americans into believing they're serious about immigration reform. BULLoney! Bush remains a believer in open borders and amnesty for illegals. IOW, Bush supports liberal immigration policy.
"We must reduce pressure on our border by creating a temporary worker plan. Willing workers ought to be matched with willing employers to do jobs Americans are not doing for a temporary -- on a temporary basis.
We must face the reality that millions of illegal immigrants are already here. They should not be given an automatic path to citizenship; that is amnesty. I oppose amnesty. There is a rational middle ground between granting an automatic pass to citizenship for every illegal immigrant and a program of mass deportation. And I look forward to working with Congress to find that middle ground."
Interesting change of tune here.
Could it be he is finally listening to the majority of people who voted him into office?
We can only hope.
I don't see a time frame on the White House website. Being a typical Federal Job, the fence should be completed around 2020?
By that time it will be too late.
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Secure Fence Act Signed by the President
"I just left the Roosevelt Room of the White House, where President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, critical legislation that authorizes at least 700 miles of two-layered fencing along our southwest border.
The American people demand action to stem the tide of illegal immigration and Republicans have responded by dramatically increasing physical barriers … by adding 3,736 new Border Patrol agents … by building 9,150 new detention beds … by hiring 1,373 detention personnel … by ending catch-and-release … and by more than quadrupling spending on border and immigration enforcement over the last five years.
Although I’m leaving the Senate in fulfillment of the pledge I made 12 years ago, I’ll be fighting to ensure that every inch of the fence authorized today is funding fully and constructed promptly … and so should my fellow conservatives throughout America. And I’ll be fighting for better interior enforcement of our immigration laws. We simply must provide tamper proof, biometric identification cards that will enable employers to hire only legal workers. And we must authorize strict penalties for those employers who willingly defy our immigration laws.
Securing our borders is not an insurmountable problem. But it is a problem that House and Senate Democrat leadership – who voted against the Secure Fence Act – irresponsibly ignore." - Senator Frist
http://www.volpac.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=502
A special thanks to conservatives in the U.S. House for holding firm on border security first before other immigration measures are enacted.
There is no way I can sit out the upcoming election now, withdraw from this fight, or cede any advantage to the Democrats who view illegal aliens as an endless source of fraudulent voters for their sordid, liberal philosophy and a means to obtain power over our lives.
Gaaaaaaah!
This is wonderful rhetoric. I wish he meant it.
"although a homeland security spending measure the president signed earlier this month makes a $1.2 billion down payment on the project"
Try reading the bill ONE time?
Funding is in the Homeland Security budget signed into law the 1st week in Oct. The Time Line is IN the bill.
Could the Always Angry read the bill first rather then cling to the nosnesne propaganda spewed at them by people who are NOT at all intrested in the truth here but merely want to keep the issue alive as a fund raising tool for their Anti Illegals activist groups?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:4:./temp/~c109Z6WMDs::
"President Bush has done more than any president before him in recent history to secure our border."
Agreed. He deserves credit for taking this issue head on.
While many don't agree with the policy he put forth, I give him credit for making it a priority.
He understands the pieces. He puts them in the wrong order. This bill helped him.
In other words, don't expect loyal American conservatives to be wowed. Only the pretend-conservatives are that easily impressed. The rest of us are still waiting for real action to be taken to stem the invasion of illegal aliens into the United States.
Hint: it will take far more than the mere signing of a single bill for partial fencing of the border.
Oh, how it must have pained his soul to sign it.