Senate OKs Border Fence
Via AP
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.
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.
The Senate acted in a volatile political environment, as the White House struggled for a second day to ease the concerns of House Republicans who contend that President Bush favors amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Thousands of demonstrators massed a few blocks from the Capitol demanding immigrant rights.
Construction of the barrier would send “a signal that open-border days are over. … Good fences make good neighbors, fences don’t make bad neighbors,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. He said border areas where barriers already exist have experienced economic improvement and reduced crime.
Building better fences should be a no brainer in fixing our border problem. I was amazed at how poor the fencing was when I was watching Greta the other night being given a tour by one of the Minutemen. Building a better fence should be common sense. Of course there will be certain moonbats that we already know don’t have any of that.
Dick Durbin had this to say.
“What we have here has become a symbol for the right wing in American politics,” countered Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. He said if the proposal passed, “our relationship with Mexico would come down to a barrier between our two countries.”
Durbin wasn’t alone in his backwards logic, Kennedy joins in the nonsense.
Meanwhile, on the amnesty side of the issue…McCaine goes bananas.
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Posted by Jay on May 17, 2006 2:31 pm
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Every time Durbin opens his mouth the Republican party picks up voters. What a moron.
The more of a extremist Durbin looks the more likely he will be booted out of office in 2006 as there is no gerrymandering for Senators. I just hope we can offer something but another RINO to contest the Senate seat with him.
Allow me to share some of what I’ve just written on this subject:
“We have strong culture, and a powerful self-identity. But it is not immortal. It can be damaged. It can be destroyed. This is what is at stake. For its preservation, we must compromise. We must do what it takes, to dam the flood. And what it takes, I think, is compromise. Citizenship? They do not deserve it and ought not receive it. Legal status? It seems the give part, of give and take. Employer sanctions? Jobs are why they come, mostly. So yes, it is necessary. A wall. Yes, please – long and high. Not to fence anyone in. To fence unwanted, unnecessary, unwelcomed people out. Ours are not prison walls – they are bank walls. We must protect what is valuable, because not all greed is ours.
“Why don’t these people, these Congressmen of the Future Confederacy get it? I’m not a big believer in conspiracies. It’s not some vast plot to undermine the concept of national sovereignty. Rather, it’s has to do with a heart that has so much gooey, squishy softness to it that it’s spilled out of the ribcage, refluxed up the esophagus, through the sinuses and into the brain – turning it too into a sort of gingerbread dough. There must be a third half of the brain, somewhere, that they’re using, neither intuitive nor rational – just somehow magical, where nice things happen because you have a kind motive. Maybe that’s the brain the scarecrow got from the Wizard. ‘Cause that’s what it feels like. Oz. But even the Emerald City had a wall.
“Sanity is that state of mind that is most in harmony with reality. Let’s be sane.”
http://forgottenprophets.blogspot.com/2006/05/always-sane.html
It goes on – or rather, it *did* go on – but what else would you expect?
Best,
J