Vice President Cheney radio interview - "Guard troops can install a section of fence"

Rush Limbaugh .com ^ | 5/16/06

[Libloather]

One of the very useful things the Guard can do is what they did there in San Diego a few years ago when they installed a section of fence..."

When I heard that, I almost fell out of my chair. FINALLY!

[dead]

Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to hire Mexicans to build the fence?

[atomicpossum]

?Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to hire Mexicans to build the fence?

Wouldn't it be cheaper to arrest illegals, and sentence them to 90 days hard labor building the fence before they get deported?

[mikeus_maximus]

Well, OK, to dress things up a bit. As long as it doesn't get in the way, I mean...

[Shermy]

Just a sop.

"Well, I think part of it is that a lot of folks aren't aware of what's already being done"

More aware of what's not being done for 6 years.

"But you've also got to address, I think, some of the basic economic incentives that attract people in the first place: all those folks who want to come here for the jobs that they can find working in the United States for a lot more than they can make in Mexico or someplace in Central America."

Yep, depress American wages to the level of those countries, on the excuse of caring about them. Cheney the Globalist.

Just enforce the border.

[hershey]

Excellent!

[Darkwolf377]

fences -- "security barriers" might be a better word for it -- are in fact an important part of the overall plan and need to be part of it.

We complained about Bush not putting men on the border and not building a wall.

Bush is on record as putting men on the border.

Cheney is on record as wanting fences or walls.

Considering the steps the Administration has taken in the past day, and the reaction to it of certain FReepers, this further step toward their position will make them FURIOUS.

[Sir Gawain]

We've got some 11 or 12 million illegals in the country. It is a national security problem. It's also an economic problem. If you could round all those folks up tomorrow and put them back over the border, you'd have a big hole in your workforce.

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I mean, the president pointed out in his speech for example that since we got into office, we have arrested, turned back, sent back across the border some six million illegals.

So which quote of yours is the truth, Mr Vice President? It can't be both.

[samadams2000]

Scary...even Cheney is out of touch.

[Soul Seeker]

Bush is on record with putting Guard down on the border that will not enforce the law. They cannot apprehend nor carry ammunition.

Cheney is on record with a section of fence, rather than an entire strip of fencing, so what people will do is simply go through the sections not fenced in.

Quit stating they have given what was wanted. They have not.

[Darkwolf377]

So which quote of yours is the truth, Mr Vice President? It can't be both.

Why not?

There are 12 million here...we turned back 6 million...

Why can't both be true?

[Robertsll]

No, you simply don't understand the role of illegals. They are not indentured servants for the government. They are indentured servants for business. If we use illegal labor to work for the government to build the fence, contractors would not be able to bid $200 per foot of fence. Then sell that to a subcontractor for $50 per foot of fence. And then have the fence be built by a company for $10 per foot of fence with the work done by illegals getting about $1 per foot of fence.

Illegal aliens are not to be used as a direct means to put dishonest contractors and companies out of business. They are to be used by dishonest contractors and companies to put Americans out of work.

[EagleUSA]

Cheney is on record as wanting fences or walls.
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Cheney should have been President. We would be getting real results for America now, IMHO...not the token crap and AMNESTY we are getting from Bush and the Senate. I listened to Bush rationalize the illegals in a press conference with Australia's President today...made me want to puke!!!!

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

And give them a lottery number for fast track citizenship? No guarantee except for wages earned. Just a shot at fast track citizenship...

[Robertsll]

I listened to Bush rationalize the illegals in a press conference with Australia's President today...made me want to puke!!!!

Charles Krauthammer said those opposed to allowing the 12 million illegal earn their citizenship need to have their medications adjusted.

Last night Bush said the anti-amnesty crowd are not thinking with their heads, they are thinking with their emotions. Bush has the real logical and reasonable solution to this problem: earned amnesty. He says anyone who breaks into the country and stays for 2-5 years should be allowed to stay here.

Bush's message to conservatives: Don’t be sissy women who think with their emotions. Be men who think logically and who use reason. Don't get worked up over this issue, it not that big of a deal. Go back to watching American Idol.

[Darkwolf377]

One of the very useful things the Guard can do is what they did there in San Diego a few years ago when they installed a section of fence there that's turned out to be very effective -- that particular section has been very effective -- basically was built by Guard troops. So there are a lot of things they could do

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[Busywhiskers]

If NG guys are engineer units I am thinking belts of triple standard concertina fences stewn with tangle foot and landmines.

[dead]

Just make sure they're all facing north while they're installing the last section.

[in hoc signo vinces]

How is his interpertation less valid then yours?

And, exactly, where was it stated the the nat guard troops will be unable to carry ammunition and unable to detain an illegal?