Posted on 01/21/2015 3:43:04 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009
New GOP Border Security Bill Removes Border Fences The new border bills drafted by Republican leaders require the actual removal of at least 66 miles of weak border fencing between Mexico and the United States.
The border bills also only require for the construction of 27 miles of effective double-layer fencing along the 2,000-mile border.
“It is a remarkable that the direction of our progress is going backwards, from a goal of building 700 miles of double-layer border fencing [in 2006] to only 27 miles [in 2015],” said a Hill staffer who opposes the leaders’ bills.
“Where the double-layer fence has been put in, it has worked spectacularly. The public is with us 80, 90 percent on this issue,” he added.
Extra fencing would be a waste of money, according to Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
“The bill matches resources to needs, putting 27 more miles of fencing where fencing is needed, and technology where technology is needed,” said the statement.
“In our conversations with outside groups, experts and stakeholders, we learned that it would be an inefficient use of taxpayer money to complete the fence. … We are using that money to utilize other technology to create a secure border,” said the statement.
A House staffer said the McCaul’s bill doesn’t require a major fence because of advocacy by Heritage and Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform.
Dan Holler, communications director for Heritage Action for America, told The Daily Caller that Heritage did not recommend against fencing.
ATR has joined with wealthy advocates — such as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — to call for increased use of foreign workers and residency for illegal immigrants.
Senate committee staffers declined to offer any reassurances that Senators would modify the bill to fund more fencing and to block Obama’s catch-and-release policy, prior to a Senate vote in a few weeks.
“We’re going to be looking at everything,” said a committee staffer. “We can’t give any detail beyond that.”
The Senate bill is co-sponsored by Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, who co-sponsored the Senate’s 2013 immigration bill.
“We introduced the McCaul [House] bill [in the Senate] as is and plan to update and improve it as we study the issue through [House] briefings and hearings,” said the staffer, who works for the Senate’s homeland security committee. The committee is chaired by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson.
The public strongly supports a border fence. An April 2013 poll by Rasmussen shows “that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters think the United States should continue building a border fence, while 29% disagree.” Support for the fence is much higher among the GOP-leaning voters that provided the votes for the GOP victory in November.
A 2006 law required the construction of 700 miles of double-layer fencing along the 2,000 mile border. However, Congress quietly modified the bill in 2008 to allow the construction of simple, ineffective fences in place of the required double-layer fencing.
Officials claim that just over 600 miles of the border now have obstructions, including barriers. But those barriers include lines of bollards to stop vehicles, plus single-layer “landing mat fencing” and only 36.5 miles of double-layer fencing.
The leaders’ bills call for the replacement of anti-pedestrian mat fences by anti-vehicle bollards.
The bollards will allow migrants to be driven up to the border, and then walked over to a pick-up vehicle on the U.S. side.
“Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall replace, at a minimum, each of the following: (A) Thirty-one miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrol’s San Diego sector. (B) Five miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrol’s El Centro sector. (C) Three miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrol’s Yuma sector. (D) Twenty-five miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector. (E) Two miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector,” says a section on page 12 of the House bill, HR 399.
People were warned over and over and they freely chose this.
I hope they all lose all their toys to the invaders their GOP votes enabled.
Toys, houses, cars...everything.
Because they deserve to.
Times like this, I think it must be true; At this time, there is only one political party in the United States.
Well, thats what lesser evil results in.
What? No landmines? GOP sucks.
But we’ll hold their feet to the fire, and show them when we vote Republican again in 2016, dammit!
Wow, they are caving fast...allowed “climate change” vote too!
Lots of work ahead of them for 2016.
What is next...yea votes on abortion and homosexuals?
Yup. gotta keep our powder dry! The real battle is just over the horizon and 16 is the most important election EVER!!!
Already there.
“America is a compassionate society, and no one wants to separate families by deporting moms and dads or husbands and wives. As a result, I support immigration reform and a path to legal status for people whose only crime was to enter the country illegally when they came here to work. I also recognize that our current immigration laws are not working – not for American workers, not for employers, and not for immigrants who want to come to America and play by the rules.
Ron Johnson.
It’s adorable that we had hopes that a Republican majority in the House and Senate would work for the good of America.
Boehner is Gruber... your vote for the GOP was a vote wasted they will betray you.
“16 is the most important election EVER!!!
If the establishment gets their guy...2016 is pointless.
You GOP guys either win or loos the country in the primary.
“Wow, they are caving fast...allowed “climate change” vote too!”
Please read the below link. Thank you for understanding the importance of understanding the issue you are posting on.
I was being sarcastic. I just rehashed the traditional GOP FR plant talking point that we heard to the point of absurdity every election since Reagan left office.
My apologies, meant to say: Grover Norquist.
Today’s Daily Caller article mentions his influencing this last border security betrayal.
Norquist is a Very bad anti-USA, pro-Islamic actor - like Valerie Jarrett is.
Fellow FReeper dontreadthis provided a link to an incredibly informative expose featuring research by David Horowitz, detailing what a threat Norquist is in shaping gov’t policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfhO7bZUTc
Grover Norquist’s Islamic Republic of America
youtube ^ | Jun 11, 2014 | Tom Trento and Frank Gaffney
Posted on 6/11/2014, 10:46:00 PM by dontreadthis two-part episode 7 presents the forensic case proving definitively that Grover Norquist is guilty of aiding and abetting
Muslim terrorists who want to turn America into an Islamic Republic. Grover is NOT the super-conservative that his Public Relations machine presents, but indeed an ideological, enemy-of-the-state.
“Therefore one of our investigative objectives is to de-legitimize his impact on the critical November 4, 2014 election, particularly in the significant, “battle ground” states.”
This whole thing is annoying. I remember when President Bush was President a lot of people even sent a brick to show a serious support of getting a fence and it was not just symbolic...it was serious. President Bush I guess didn’t want it and neither did his Republican Congress at the time. 10 years later we are not advanced at all.
There's not even a dimes worth of difference anymore. Zero difference.
To the GOP loyalists that scream, "But you HAVE to vote for X, or Y will get in!"....
.....My response is always, "Yes! Because it is MUCH better that X approves illegal amnesty, bans guns, votes for socialism, adopts fringe Greenie positions, cows to every Obama initiative, backs abortion, and elevates gays over heteros. MUCH better!"
How do you have border control without fences?
You don’t.
“We are using that money to utilize other technology to create a secure border,””
So far all I’ve read is that they will tear down 66 out of 700 miles of fencing and add 27 miles of fencing. That would leave approx 1460 miles with no fencing, the security they add will allow drive up walk through with pick up on the US side. Sounds like they will eliminate the illegals and invaders from having to walk through the desert and getting thirsty. Grover Norquist, a muslim, is for this. Yeah, this will secure our border.
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