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Grassley immigration amendment tabled (Border Enforcement)
Ted Barrett ^ | June 13th, 2013 01:05 PM ET

Posted on 06/13/2013 10:46:11 AM PDT by Red Steel

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To: LibFreeUSA
Sooooooooo, those traitors never, ever had any intention of getting or enforcing border security! Of course, if they had, they already have the laws on hand than they need, the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli Immigration Reform Act, that calls for border security and workplace enforcement!

Those who put forth that bill never, ever planned to enforce that bill either!

Liars, cheats and traitors. Toss them out, establish recall elections where permissible and send them out to DC to live off their huge retirement plans, that Rubio won't get to take advantage of because he hasn't "worked" at his Senate job for 6 years!

21 posted on 06/13/2013 11:55:40 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: green iguana

I may seem absolutist, but it’s necessary with these politicians. Give them the freedom to make exceptions, and they will all over the place whether needed or not.

Fence the entire thing. In fact, double fence with no man’s land in between.

JMHO


22 posted on 06/13/2013 12:02:06 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: green iguana
Where do you suggest putting the fence here?

See that ledge on the top of the right cliff? It looks real flat there. I think that spot would do nicely. Give the river to Mexico. We got plenty of em.

23 posted on 06/13/2013 12:03:20 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
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To: Piranha; green iguana

Can I be La Raza too?

I don’t want a 6’ chain link fence with some rusty razor wire on top. I want a reinforced concrete wall on a foundation with a chain link fence and razor wire 15’ inside of the concrete barrier. Between the wall and the fence is where the mines are to be set.

Of course we should include the proper signage in both English and Spanish to protect our loving trespassers telling them of the dogs, electrified fence, land mines and killer bees.


24 posted on 06/13/2013 12:12:30 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
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To: green iguana
I can’t imagine going to Big Bend and being stopped short of the Rio Grande by a fence. No one gets apprehended there, because few illegally cross there. There’s no where to go.

....unless you have a boat and a phone. But the illegals aren't near that sophisticated are they.

25 posted on 06/13/2013 12:14:17 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
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To: Tenacious 1

I agree. The security fence in Israel has been very successful against Muslim terrorists. It is a “fence” fence in places and a concrete barrier in others depending on topography. We can use that as a model.

It is mindless chauvinism to argue against the barrier because it will not be on the last inch of US territory. That is the kind of argument a troll would make.


26 posted on 06/13/2013 12:20:31 PM PDT by Piranha (We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.)
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To: Tenacious 1

The only boats around there are people-powered. River-rafting is a HUGE industry there, and you’re trying to kill off the livlihood of hundreds of people. 10s of thousands of people, if you include the whole Rio Grande border.

Cell phones DO NOT work there. Maybe satellite phones, but that’s it.

You’re not from around here, are you?


27 posted on 06/13/2013 12:21:33 PM PDT by green iguana
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To: green iguana
You’re not from around here, are you?

Not since I rowed across the Rio Grande to live here in 1997. I got thirsty waiting for my ride.

28 posted on 06/13/2013 12:37:33 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
Yes, I believe you may possibly be right...unless there's Divine intervention on the minds of our guys...it looks like they have long ago defected to the other side.
29 posted on 06/13/2013 12:39:38 PM PDT by caww
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To: green iguana

Oh yes! An electric fence dead center!


30 posted on 06/13/2013 12:40:30 PM PDT by caww
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To: zerosix

<.....”Sooooooooo, those traitors never, ever had any intention of getting or enforcing border security! Of course, they already have the laws”...>

Shortened your comment a bit...but we already have the laws..and you are right..if they had wanted border security they would have long ago enforced the laws already in place.

Our borders will never be secured....they’ve made that quite clear.


31 posted on 06/13/2013 12:45:32 PM PDT by caww
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To: Tenacious 1

I still say set an electric fence smack dab IN the river....on our side...fry them if they try to get across.


32 posted on 06/13/2013 12:47:20 PM PDT by caww
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To: green iguana
This is the India-Pakistani border seen from space. With a tenth of our GDP India has erected 1,156 miles of floodlights and will eventually have built 1,269 miles of fencing...

India-Pakistan-border

across terrain far more difficult and hostile than that between here and Mexico. Am I wrong to understand that a complete fencing system has already been passed not once, but twice, and has never been finished due to purposeful underfunding? By LAW those enactments mandate completion of the too-long unfinished border barrier. Excuses of "it can't be done", like this special interest amnesty, is utter BS.

33 posted on 06/13/2013 4:32:48 PM PDT by N-R-T (NewRome Tacitus)
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To: Red Steel

...voted 57-43 to table the measure...
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Did a Dem vote twice? ....Isn’t Kerry’s seat still empty?


34 posted on 06/13/2013 6:18:29 PM PDT by octex
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35 posted on 06/13/2013 6:54:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: N-R-T

Don’t get me wrong about securing the border - I want it secured. I like the lighting idea. I want it manned. I don’t want people having the ability to come across illegally.

I just happen to believe that this can be accomplished without ceding territory to Mexico. If a fence can’t be put right on the border, then do something else there.

We can secure the border without taking away people’s recreation, property and livelihood.


36 posted on 06/14/2013 5:58:38 AM PDT by green iguana
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