Posted on 06/14/2007 8:47:26 AM PDT by azhenfud
The Secure Fence Act of 2006, the legislation President Bush signed into law just late last October, authorized 700 miles of new reinforced fencing to be constructed along the US/Mexico border and so far, real evidence of just 2 miles being completed with repairs made to about nine others can be found. Little actual funding has been allocated for its construction simply because the will or intention to implement that law remains obviously absent from this administration.
Three years ago, President Bush signed the National Identification Act of 2004 into law which authorized hiring an additional 10,000 border patrol agents over five years beginning in 2006. As of today, there ought be 4,000 new officers on duty, 80% of which were to be designated to the US/Mexican border. That's a total of 6,400 additional eyes on the southern border, but as of yet - only 210 officers have been hired and some of those would be replacements of retirees, of those choosing career changes, of those whose obligations in the military have called them to serve the US in other areas, and replacements of those either incarcerated for doing their jobs or those who died doing their duty. Again, funding for this force's provision has been glaringly absent, but even more evident has been the absence of intention to see the law executed.
Until at least a half-hearted effort is made to execute and enforce laws which have already been legislated, which have already been pledged to Americans, American Patriots ought and will reject any amendments to immigration code that offers absolution to illegal aliens or grants indemnity to code violators from the justice due them for their offenses. Until Americans see an honest intent, a fair effort invested, American Patriots will rightly proclaim before Legislators, "We simply do not trust you".
What Capitol Hill claims to offer is one thing; what Americans obtain is entirely nothing of the kind - bringing us to this latest machination called the "Grand Bargain".
Indubitably rejected once, this partly revived form of legislation known as the "Grand Bargain" is but a new pile of manure from the same old horse. The piles may be shaped a fraction differently, but the origin is the same. The latest push to revive this heap of legislation is rooted in an attempt to beguile the American public using its own tax dollars, a carrot of a bribe intended as an entanglement in verbiage to disguise loophole trickery where, when all the juristic magniloquence is cleared away and vigilance may be focused elsewhere, those enforcement dollars would quietly yet eventually be "reallocated".
Prima-facie evidence: if an intention to enforce security measures were truly at the Senate's heart, the $3-15 billion funding sought for the ailing Grand Bargain's enforcement provisions would already have been allocated to implement the provisions of those 2004 and 2006 laws. Yet, from the time of those acts' genesis, those enforcement provisions were deliberately contrived to fail from lack of funding. This new legislation and any remnants that may arise from it will be laced with the same afflictions and needs to be rejected altogether.
Secondary evidence: when Sen. Edward Kennedy, (D, Mass) master architect of the Grand Bargain and chief underwriter of the amnesty portion of the bill suddenly moves to support those "enforcement" provisions, a note of intense skepticism in specific Legislators' verity is duly warranted.
Negotiators of this Grand Bargain scheme must believe most Americans are plagued with the same reality detachment disorder suffered by Legislators who've been subjected to prolonged exposure to Washington. There is a cure for such derangement and it's remedial dosage may be found in the voting booths across this nation and prescribed one mark of the ballot at the time.
We must dispense credit where credit is due. This Grand Bargain has succeeded in corroborating a few good things: it has disclosed to the American public; to the world the deliberate mendacity among some US Legislators and has uncovered the defiance which some Lawmakers have for their American constituency.
North Carolinians can be proud this state's Senators have strongly stood opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens while helping maintain America's security and sovereignty. This bill has become more than merely an immigration debate - it's become a test of the constituency's trust and confidence in their elected Represenatives. As Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R, SC) stated, "this isn't about immigration anymore." How correct you are, Senator...
It’s a grand bargain for the elites while average joe six pack takes it in the shorts once again. UNFRIGGIN’ REAL!!
The senate can talk money all they want, but they cannot appropriate any money... it is all “happy talk”
“The Grand Bargain”... crafted to give an appearance of resolute change, but in reality it makes a grave problem far worse. Moreover, the craftsmanship of trickery is deliberate and premeditated.
Bush is laughing at the will of the American people. He turns my stomach.
Three years ago, President Bush signed the National Identification Act of 2004 into law which authorized....bla bla bla.....
It also authorized Chertoff to suspend any Law that stands in the way of constructing the fence and other barriers.......
Comprehensive Abomination BUMP!
Watch what he does, not what he says.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/09/MNGOKB837T1.DTL
Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents
President uses law’s escape clause to drop funding for new homeland security force
Like I have been saying, it’s the elites against everyone else. They stand to gain while the average American takes it in the shorts. Enough is most certainly enough.
Thank you for your service to this great country. This Presidente’ makes a mockery of everything you fought for.
I learned yesterday that there are 2,000 miles of Sound Barrier walls up along US highways. There was plenty of money for that.
Call, FAX and write the corrupt liars right now and make sure they know a vote for clouture is considerd a vote for amnesty. The fools seem to believe the yahoos will be fooled if they vote no on amnesty, when this bill could have remained without a pulse.
Don’t listen to anyone telling you it’s over. keep hitting them over and over again. Be relentless.
You forget, it is not the will of the American people that matters; it is the will of the Decider. And the Decider has decided to dump his conservative base and replace it with a new obedient one for his half-mexican nephew George P Bush’s election, who he calls “44” - the next in the planned Bush presidential dynasty.
The last highway bill cost $300 billion.
The Federal budget for the year will be $2,900 billion.
So, yes, a $1 billion fence for a basic Govt function is more than affordable.
It’s a vanity/editorial sent to my local fishwrap. Their issues are released on Mondays and Thursdays.
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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Glad to bump this thread and thanks for posting!
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