Posted on 01/17/2008 4:41:14 PM PST by AuntB
As you may have read, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R - Texas) slipped an amendment into the latest omnibus spending bill to revoke all mandates that a border fence be built. I've ripped this from Gates of Vienna since I didn't get the email from the Center for Individual Freedom:
Forget the fence.. It’s gone… Last month -- when they thought you weren’t looking -- the U.S. Senate passed a $555 billion omnibus spending bill that contained a tiny amendment revoking the mandate that the fence be built as originally specified.
And guess who slyly slipped in the amendment to gut SFA: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas -- a state that has been ravaged and savaged by illegal immigration.
Her amendment reads: - - - - - - - - - “Nothing in this paragraph shall require the secretary of homeland security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location.”
Those who had fought to stop illegal immigration were stunned and angry.
Congressman Duncan Hunter said: “If Congress is to reverse its border stance after just one year, what message does that send to illegal immigrants and drug smugglers who are watching to see how serious we are about protecting America’s borders .”
As the Center put it:
Congressman Hunter was the driving force behind the building of the border fence in San Diego.
That fence consists of two layers with a Border Patrol access road separating the layers.
Congressman Hunter says the fence has reduced the smuggling of drugs and illegal aliens into San Diego BY A PHENOMENAL 90 PERCENT!
“If you get over my fence,” he says, “we sign you up for the Olympics immediately.”
In fact, he wrote the Secure Fence Act, which originally required a double layer border fence, just like the one in San Diego. The Hutchison amendment killed that requirement too.
TWO-FACED POLITICIANS -- REPUBLICANS AS WELL AS DEMOCRATS -- HAD NO INTENTION OF BUILDING A FENCE WHEN THEY PASSED THE ACT. They voted for it while winking at one another, certain the time would come when you and I wouldn’t notice or even care when they hauled the Secure Fence out to the Washington city dump.
The only reason San Diego is not completely overrun is because of its border fence. Before it was built in the 90s, hundreds of people used to line up south of the border at a time and run across in a big group so that the border patrol could only catch a few people. It became such an embarrassment that Clinton actually signed the San Diego border fence into law - Clinton, of all people. Still, Mexicans from southern San Diego (Chula Vista), will often drive to the rich, white/asian northern part of San Diego and rob people there. My mother-in-law was telling me stories she heard from her own personal network of how her friends left their wallets in their car and wallets were stolen and money spent down in Chula Vista before her friends knew what had happened. Apparently, those poor Mexican illegals they hire during the day to do jobs Americans won't do may also be scouting their neighborhoods for free goodies and other targets of opportunity, like your children and wives. Another of my in-laws neighbors caught her Mexican gardener stealing from her after consulting with the gardener's other clients to discover that some of their stuff had gone missing as well.
Upper class whites can expect this and much worse if Mexicanization increases, and they are behind it. They own the businesses that hire Mexicans to do jobs Americans "won't do" so that they don't have to pay payroll taxes and SSI. They're the ones that pull the strings of these politicians to keep the borders open, deluding themselves with the notion that Mexicans are just coming here to do honest work and live otherwise crime-free lives. In reality, Mexicans who come across the border see how unseriously we take our borders so they think they can get away with whatever else they want. They also start gangs, who recruit young members who turn schools into war zones to harass American children.
Upper class whites are at a crossroads, in my view. They can either use their money to try to reform the laws that make it so expensive to hire American workers, (which they have not even attempted to do yet), or they can expect to lead increasingly isolated, harried lives. They can either use their influence to close the borders, or they can expect running gun battles between the police or military and drug cartels in the streets of once-safe cities as the US becomes more like Mexico. They can use their influence to pressure Americans of Mexican descent to drop their loyalty to Mexico and Mexican culture, or they can expect a fragmented future for the United States.
“Upper class whites...?”
That’s just so wrong. Elitist. Racist.
American citizens all need to decide what we need to decide.
How does Kay Bailey Hutchison explain her action?
She lies. :<)
How’s the world treating you these days, donna?
I always thought truth and fact were appreciated by all men.
You can imagine my shock and outrage as I get older.
I hope you started out wiser than I, LOL.
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Oh, heck no. I never seem to learn. I’m still stunned everytime I see someone lie about someone. Then double shocked when they profess to be a good Christian.
Since Texas is already over 50% Mexican, let's just punt and build the fence on the northern border of Texas. Maybe then Kay would back us up.
Better yet, why don't we duct-tape her and The Arkansas Huckster together and drop them both in the Rio Grande, environmental laws permitting.
More gross negligence from our elected officials.
Unless we secure the border, our future looks pretty dim indeed.
I don't know about "upper class whites" but what is clear here is that these people have figured out a way to get the taxpaying public of all classes and colors to SUBSIDIZE THEIR EMPLOYEES with the "free" health care in public clinics and other benefits that WE can't withhold from the illegals. This is a mammoth, direct subsidy to people who employ illegals that allows the "upper class" employers to maintain their "upper class" lifestyle at the expense of others. And OUR government, that is supposed to represent US, has let this happen. Thank you, Senator Hutchison; thank you, Senator McCain; thank you, Senator Kennedy.
I agree! I am so tired of my taxes going to pay for the health care of illegal Mexicans!!
If they think Texas is lost to the Mexicans, what about California?
The three Senators you cited are open for prosecution under the RICO Act as it was written - voluntarily aiding criminal enterprises across state lines and borders. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
I take our government’s lack of action and abdication of Constitutional responsibilities as saying (until the Supreme Court musters up the nads to rule on it) our safety and welfare is a state and local matter. I refuse to live in a state of fear, the illegals have no business in my locality and their existences, should they threaten mine, don’t matter.
If they want Mexico, I say let's give to 'em, full bore...
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