Hostile reception for pro-fence congressmen in Brownsville

Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | April 28, 2008 | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

[SwinneySwitch]

As jeers rose, Tancredo added, "I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city."

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

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

[kajingawd]

loved it

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The Berlin Wall kept people in — like prison walls. A border fence keeps outsiders outside — like the walls of a house. (FWIW — from a foreigner who respects a country’s right to control its borders.)

[savedbygrace]

Build the fence north of Brownsville, so it can officially become Brownsville, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It’s apparently what the officials and residents really want.

[Sterco]

Give me Hell Tancredo!!! You speak for me!!!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

With apologies to the great Sleepy John Estes:

I’m going to brownsville, climb that Northside fence
Well, I’m going to brownsville, climb that Northside fence
And I ain’t gonna stop climbin’ till politician’s make sense

[M1D]

How about land mines, barb wire and machinegun nests

[SatinDoll]

<...”This wall,...will also alienate people and businesses...” said Rev. Raymundo Pena, Bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville.>

We can remedy that by building a giant seawall along the U.S. shore of the Rio Grande. We’ll use J-Damns to clear the path. Of course that would come after seizing everyone’s property through public domain condemnation. After the wall is built, just let them try and swim the river!

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

“Boos and hisses emanated from the audience for a congressional field hearing when Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado dismissed residents’ concerns that the effort to build 670 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border by year’s end would damage the environment and destroy a centuries-old bond between residents on both sides of the Rio Grande.”

Centuries-old bond between residents? When was the Alamo again?

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Ah, the pathetic braying of Trojan Horses inside BEFORE the walls go up!

[Redbob]

"Tancredo added, "I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city."

I like that idea of Tancredo's!

[wolfcreek]

*Perez said, “It really isn’t a border to most of us who live down here.”*

Good! Then you won’t mind living south of it.

[TADSLOS]

"I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city."

SMACK!

[Kenny Bunk]

Question:

How far between the proposed fence and the actual surveyed border? I can appreciate one tiny point the opponents are making, i.e., if there's a large zone below the fence, but still on US soil, this will cut off citizens who live right on the border. (If there are any.) If we are speaking of a few yards, to allow patrols on the South Side of the fence, that's another matter. But surely, cutting a college campus in half cannot be a good idea.

[ZULU]

Tancredo should wear his reception as a badge of honor.

The U.S. Marines should be sent to occupy Brownsville. Its appaently been seized by agents of a foreign power.

[AuntB]

“Tancredo and U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, both former Republican presidential hopefuls who ran on anti-illegal immigration platforms, argued that environmental degradation caused by unchecked illegal immigration and drug smugglers exceeded any impact from the fence.”

Who will speak truths like this for us when these 2 men are gone from Congress next year?

[AuntB]

“Centuries-old bond between residents? When was the Alamo again?”

Very good point!

[SwinneySwitch]

Duncan D. Hunter, for one, AuntB.

http://www.hunterforcongress.com/