Senate Approves A Fence

• May 18, 2006

The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.
Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for conservatives seeking to place their stamp on the contentious measure.

But this is troubling:

The prospects were less favorable for their attempt to strip out portions of the legislation that could allow citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants and create new guest worker programs.

Building this fence (or fences, as the case may be) is only useful as long as we also reduce incentive for illegal immigrants to come here. If we subsequently grant the clemency (or amnesty, “path to citizenship,” whatever you want to call it) we only provide more incentive for them to get here. We will be telling them that while we’ll try to keep them out we’ll probably just reward them with citizenship if they can get here and live under the radar long enough.
That’s a sure-fire way to ensure that our new fence gets knocked over as even more illegals rush to the border.

http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

I saw a column today that noted that the Senate bill does not clearly state how the fence is to be built, but rather gives a “study period” to figure out “how best to do it.”

In other words, don’t forget to save to make a donation to the Minutemen (or other private fence-builders) yet. They may end up making a fence before the feds do after all.
diane

This country is nuts. Once the morals are gone, the logic and common sense goes as well.

I’d like to build a fence to keep out all the politicians (except Ron Paul) who currently occupy the offices in Washington D.C. They are the ruination of this country.

Both parties are absolutely moronic and if our grandparents were around to see what’s going on, they’d drop dead again.

More wasted money thrown at a problem by a bunch of stupid bureaucrats who want cheap labor to come in but want to make voters think they’re doing something.
http://bullwinkleblog.com/ bullwinkle

Think how much easier it will be to live under the radar with 12 million people who mostly cannot speak English well able to surface. We’re giving new illegals stealth capability because within 6 months of the time whatever they call the new amnesty program takes effect those geting will be filing suits claiming harassment suit every time someone asks to see their green cards.
Carrick

Closing the border is one half of the solution.

The other half is dealing with businesses that flagrantly hire illegals. After all, you guys howl about illegals who violate US law. hell, at least they’re not citizens.

Make it harder for them to enter, make it impossible for them to get hired. Then, make it nearly impossible for them to gain clemancy, and we’ve completed the deal.
richard

I know how I am voting. Every politician voting this now has a big target on their back when re-election time comes around.

I just do not get why they are ignoring the clear outcry from American’s, just goes to show who our politicians are aligned with.

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