House Passes Border-Fence Bill
(CNSNews.com) - Wasting no time on an issue of concern to many voters, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that would fence 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border.H.R. 6061, the "Secure Fence Act of 2006," calls for a double-layered fence to protect about a third of the long and porous border. A similar provision was included in a larger bill that the House passed last December, but with that bill stalled because of differences with Senate legislation, Republican leaders are forging ahead .... Democrats opposed The Secure Fence Act passed on a vote of 283-138, with 131 Democrats voting against the measure -- something that should concern the American people, Hastert said. "They don't want border security; instead they would rather jeopardize our national security and put Americans at risk" ... Read More
Posted by Bill Smith at 12:13 AM - Post Link
1 Comments:
Jersey McJones posted a long rant which was not approved because it violated the stated criteria that "Any language deemed to be 'gutter language' by the editor or the editorial staff will not be displayed."
However, in fairness, we have included some of his comments without edit below:
"The Fence...
There's an old expression - Good fences make good neighbors.
There's another old expression - Any idiot can get around a fence.
...
So, should this thing come to pass, alien workers will have to endure yet even more misery in their quest to make a buck off the satisfaction of Big Agro and Republican Voters' lawns. And remember, the harder it is for these folks to get back and forth, the more they'll just stay once they're forth. ...
Although morons (re: Republicans) would say that it was the "amnesty" that created the increase, in reality it had more to do with the ratcheting up of interdiction and enforcement. Besides, most "legalized" immigrants are not pro-"illegal" immigrant anyway. Americans have always been that way. The prior group to immigrate always resents the next. It's an unfortunate facet of Social Evolution.
But NOOO... Instead of spending the money on bolstering the INS to allow for more legal and temporary worker immigration, instead of realistically increasing quotas from Mexico (our "good" neighbor, after all), instead of allowing for good people to enter leaving only the bad to sneak in, instead of treating these migrants like human beings, instead of facing the fact that employers will continue to hire these folks and continue to grease the political wheels to get away with it no matter what we do, the stupid Republicans want to put up a fence. A fence.
Post a Comment
<< Home