I'm happy. It's relative - this bill would have institutionalized our suicide. We are slowly dying, but that's better than committing suicide as a nation.
I thought that the fence was funded for the 700 miles but that the Bush Administration wasn't putting the money in the last approved budgetary expeditures?
I could swear I heard Duncan Hunter saying that not only was it authorized by Congress but also, subsiquently, funding was approved by Congress.
Yes-The status quo is not what we desire, but at least we won’t have 12 million or 20 million newly legal ‘workers’ demanding benefits, committing crimes and flouting our laws. We can work on the fence and beef up enforcement.
What you don't seem to understand is that the Dems were not going to build the fence or increase border security with this bill either. Both the 1986 and the 2006 bills (that are law) provided for increased border security (building the fence 2006) and look what we got! Nada! That's exactly what we would have gotten with this POS: amnesty but no border security.