Posted on 10/12/2009 3:51:11 PM PDT by pissant
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Members of Congress have stripped a provision requiring 300 more miles of tall fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border from a Department of Homeland Security appropriation bill, saying the funds needed to build the barrier would be better spent on alternative security measures.
If the amendment by U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint had remained in the bill, tall fencing to stop illegal immigrants and smugglers on foot would have been installed along 700 miles of border — a plan that many officials and residents along the Southwest border have opposed.
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I live 2 miles from the border, and I’m not opposed.
How about I take a wild guess here and assume that all seven were...Democrats. They'd sell out their mother if it would win them reelection.
racist
Enemies, foreign AND domestic.
This is what would have happened if the amnesty bill was passed in 2007, except the illegals would have been given amnesty along with a lack of border protection.
Of course they have. Morons. America haters. Freedom haters.
You all come to the democrats slave plantation ....
Hump-leg media reporters often use "many" or "some" when they want to insert their own opinion into the story.
“Members of Congress have stripped a provision requiring 300 more miles of tall fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border”
That’s O.K., can California, Arizona or New Mexico have Texas’ portion then? We won’t let it go to waste!
Not sure. It was done in the House-Senate markup committee.
>>Of course they have. Morons. America haters. Freedom haters<<
Talk about low hanging fruit.....you forgot TRAITORS!
I remember seeing one blimp-like object fairly close to the Mexican border in Az once. I suppose if they’re at an optimum height, a stationary one could provide surveillance for miles of border. Maybe there are some barriers that are TNT/tunnel proof, but some of those areas are bound to be rather rugged for construction equipment at least.
The money would be better spent by the people who earn it.
Can’t disagree with that, but you’ll never see it once it leaves your wallet.
Excellent job of staying on top of relevant information and posting it for us.
Here is an ecological slant giving another angle to support building the fence asap.
Here’s a blog that supports the border fence based on an ecological analysis which is an interesting new angle.
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