Texas governor signs compromise border security bill

Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | June 06, 2007 | LYNN BREZOSKY

[SwinneySwitch]

Wonder how high the fence is around the Governor's mansion?

[K-oneTexas]

Where is the poll of Texas who are f\’For’ and ‘Against’ building the fence? I never saw one ... guess the Gov. went door-to-door. Funny he missed mine.

[BeckB]

How about no state money to Texas cities that give sanctuary? There is always some excuse for not building a fence. Any thing that deters easy crossing is a going to help.

[weegee]

A bill to compromise border security?

[weegee]

Funny Gov. Goodhair waited until re-election to (A) declare he lied to voters and (B) push through his real plans (not just immigration but privatizing the state lottery, selling off tollroads to foreign interests, etc...).

[texastoo]

"If you build a 30-foot wall or fence, the 32-foot ladder business is going to get real good," he said.

What a stupid governor and stupid statement. If you put a 32 foot ladder against a 30 foot wall or fence and climb to the top, then what?????????????Tell me about step #33????????Do you jump or float down 30 feet?

[SwinneySwitch]

Perry Ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[SwinneySwitch]

Provisions that did not make in into the law include requiring localities to enforce immigration laws, mention of a highly criticized homeland security database and limits on sales of prepaid cellular telephones.

[texastoo]

Step #33 is going to be a real b!tch.

[DumpsterDiver]

If you put a 32 foot ladder against a 30 foot wall or fence and climb to the top, then what?????????????

Then you and I can stand there yelling "Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!"

[CindyDawg]

Every one gets a slice of “American” pie and nothing gets done. Same old stuff. Perry won’t get my vote next time around.

[TXnMA]

Then you and I can stand there yelling "Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!"

Or, yell (in Spanish), "Hold still -- you're messing up my sight picture!"

[deport]

If they can get to the top of it they’ll find a way down.......

[Kellis91789]

Then you pull up the second ladder you brought along and lower it on the US side of the fence. Up one ladder and down the other. Or you use a 60 foot long rope ladder.

A physical barrier is only part of a solution. You need monitoring and fast response as well. At least a fence — even if it isn’t 30 feet high, but is just multiple layers of razorwire — creates a bottleneck so you don’t have hundreds of people rushing through all at once.

Rather than waiting 6 months while a fence is built across the border, I’d like to see the razorwire immediately and monitoring towers. It wouldn’t take more than a few weeks to get razorwire up.

[B4Ranch]

The SeaBees could do it in a week. All it would take is to promise them a steak dinner and free some beer.

[potlatch]

[Kellis91789]

Duncan Hunter talks about 6 months for the 854 miles of fence that was already approved. That is less than half the total needed (IMO), so I’d go with the razor wire in the meantime.

I just looked and found a company called Cochrane that makes machines that can string a pyramid of 6 coils of razor wire at a rate of 25 miles per hour !

[freekitty]

What good is this going to do; if they just walk through the open gate?

[devolve]

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was just on Hannity & Colmes making up Bush-Kennedy poll numbers:

“...60% of Americans want this
bill padded...”

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Current Rasmussen poll:

“...83% of Americans are against this bill...”

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[potlatch]

I cannot stand Sheila Jackson Lee. I think of her and Maxine Waters as the ‘shriekers’!

She is lying or else only hearing from ‘her’ constituents.