Posted on 07/09/2014 12:39:45 PM PDT by cotton1706
The surge of tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children from Central America into Texas has revived calls for a border security measure long mocked by Democrats but touted by Republicans as a commonsense solution: A big, long fence.
Those calls became even louder after President Obama submitted a $3.7 billion emergency funding request to address the immigration crisis that did not include much in the way of border security. The package was focused mostly on covering detention and transportation costs, deportations, health care and immigration judges and lawyers.
"If we want to solve this problem, we need to secure the southern border," Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., told Fox News.
Bridenstine is pushing for the enforcement of The Secure Fence Act of 2006. The law, signed by then-President George W. Bush, authorized hundreds of miles of fence construction along the southern border, in addition to more checkpoints, cameras, vehicle barriers and lighting to catch people.
His office cites findings that the U.S. only has "operational control" over 44 percent of the southern border, and notes the law requires 100 percent control. To achieve that, he wants the National Guard deployed to augment the Border Patrol and construction completed on 700 miles of double-layer fence.
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But they passed that just to get amnesty, and when they didn't get amnesty, they gutted the Fence law.
“tens of thousands of immigrant children” Not to mention the other 250,000 who came over the border too.
Plus this was just the first wave, with deportation not happening there will soon be millions coming.
We doh need no steenkin’ fence! Cover the area with heavily armed drones.
I am getting more and more concerned that when and if a fence is built it will be to keep us in rather than the illegals out.
Anyone not supporting a full border fence is committing TREASON
Sick of all the Amnesty Liberals in both parties
To hell with a fence. We need a DMZ between the US and Mexico, complete with minefields, helicopter gunships, and “shoot on sight” orders.
Boener should pass a fence-building bill in the House, and watch Reid squirm in an election year.
The first thing they have to do is get rid of the greeting committees and diaper changers masquerading as border patrol —
I contemplate how we can put a man on the moon in the 60’s, yet it’s “too hard” to build a fence on our southern border.
The only explanation can be rats getting votes, and republicants getting cheap labor. They are both against the American public.
amen
Fence?
How ‘bout a WALL.
With a moat ... and tiger pits ... and punji stakes.
And razor wire on top. With 50,000V running through it.
Claymores.
Armed Drones.
Men with machineguns.
That might help a bit
Consider it a ‘modest proposal’ ... or perhaps a ‘good first step’ toward ‘reasonable border control’.
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