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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.
Must be over the target, I'm catching troll flak
“State of the art technology and reinforced mobile forces in Texas. “
Why? so the Dem in power simply turns a switch at his executive whim?
Fence. Period. Steel/concrete Israeli wall. Better. ALL THE WAY.
Oh well, that will give them something to do. Rather that they pick on me than someone important. Besides, I’m sure that it gets lonely and quiet in their parent’s basements.
Like I said lib. Prove it. ;)
BTW, You’ll note I was right on the fence issue RE the GOP too.
You’re welcome.
prima fascia......
Au contraire. WE ARE important. they aren’t. That’s the difference between conservatives and lesser people ;)
Proofa lacka
What an utter cowardly disgrace.
Pass the bill and call bozo out.
There should be no bill. thats the disgrace to begin with.
“Thats because it’s leftists who tell you that. Pedos think pedobear stuff is OK, GOP sycophants think liberalism/leftism is OK.”
cant argue with that noting that conservatives are never GOP sycophants
As I recall we've been through this once before.
A steel/concrete Israeli wall would destroy the economies of the 15 border counties by closing off ranchers' and farmers' access to the river's waters,
That's why the Israelis don't use a "steel/concrete Israeli wall" on the Israeli/Jordan border.
They will be soon. Last I heard it was in discussion. ISIS/Hez/Hamas/Iran changed the game. The great wall of china does not seem to have a negative impact on trade with china after 3000 years.
There is no excuse for no fence/wall from the gulf to the Pacific. NONE.
Sure...but they never seem to understand that. I watched one not long/few months ago post crap LITERALLY straight from a LaRaza linked website on fences not working, specifically the San Diego fence, and then on the same thread have a fit anyone would dare question her conservatism.
Then watched others have their own fits that she got caught cold (by another freeper, not me) and was called on it (by a couple of us.
The border should be training ground for drone operators.
Sniffle sniffle Boo Hoo...bUt, But, But, the ranchers might get mad having a wall built on their property. WHAAA!!!!! I doubt they would mind if rightfully compensated for the portion of land taken considering the huge damage illegals do to their land. But believe it or not I've heard that excuse in FR. Eminent Domain was written for such necessities as border security. It was not intended though for stealing land for developers.
Uh, since the only alternative is having a House and Senate controlled by the Democrats, what does anyone need to apologize for?
Are you insinuating that things would be better with Pelosi and Reid in Power right now? If so, I cannot agree.
In any General Election “we” the Voters are left with only two choices. In Primary Elections we have the chance to get the right Candidate on the General Election Ballot from a field of Candidates vying for the Job.
I’m still not sure that any FReepers were pulling for anyone but the more Conservative Candidates in the Primary Elections. If there are any, are those the people you are accusing of being GOP bots? I personally am not aware of any, but I don’t read every Posting on this Site.
About that...
they were. They had no shortage of people here and elsewhere INCLUDING THE GOP THEMSELVES PROMISING AMNESTY...
And still elected them. In record numbers.
It is therefore logical to assume that many conservatives are not conservative. They are lying liberals. I mean lets face it. Obama lies...FITS all around. The GOP lies, they elect more of them.
Do conservatives empower liars? No
Do conservatives promote corruption over ‘purity’? No.
Do conservatives attack other conservatives and torpedo conservative candidates for expressing conservative positions? No
Do liberals do all that? Yes.
Are liberals FAMOUS for doing all that? Yes.
Are most so called conservatives liberals? That does seem supported by the facts doesn’t it.
They are in charge. Bhoner and mitch give them EVERYTHING on a platter and have gone BEYOND what they asked for. They provided value added liberalism to the right.
Thats recorded history. So yes. We would indeed be better off. What you agree to or not is not supported by facts and history.It isn’t Pelousy that put a tear out the fence provision in the GOP bill. It wasn’t pelousy that benched most of the conservatives. It wasn’t Reid that tanked the 12 election. It was the GOP.
So yes. You DO owe America an apology for making a horendiously bad situation incalculably worse since.
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