Yeah, Thanks to Texas RINO Kay Bailey Huthinson !
Posted on 01/24/2008 2:12:41 AM PST by Kurt Evans
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) reintroduced the Secure Fence Act Wednesday, which requires the construction of double-layered fencing along America's Southern land border within six months.
"Securing our Southern land border remains one of our nation's greatest priorities," said Hunter, who dropped out of the presidential race on Saturday.
"When the Secure Fence Act was enacted more than one year ago, the American people were pleased to see that the necessary steps were finally being taken to secure the dangerous and problematic smuggling corridors that exist along our border with Mexico," he said.
"Instead of adhering to the law and building the prescribed fencing, the Department of Homeland Security began to immediately retreat from the mandates of the bill, indicating its intention to only build 370 miles of fence and not the required 700 miles," he said.
When President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act in October 2006, he called it "an important step in our nation's efforts to secure our border and reform our immigration system."
Hunter noted that recent provisions in the omnibus spending bill "eliminated the most substantive provisions of the Secure Fence Act, including the requirement that fencing be double-layered and extend 700 miles across our Southern land border."
"Today, DHS has built approximately 75 miles of new fence along the border, of which only 5 miles is double-layered," Hunter said in a statement.
"The Secure Fence Act was clear in that it required double-layered fencing, separated by a road for Border Patrol vehicles, extending over 700 miles of land border. Yet DHS continues to believe that single-layered fencing, vehicle barriers, and virtual fencing are adequate and reliable enforcement mechanisms," he added.
"The reality is that single-layered fencing and vehicle barriers do little, if anything, to stop illegal immigration and the virtual alternative being aggressively pursued by DHS remains ineffective and unusable," Hunter said.
But Michele Waslin, a senior policy analyst with the Immigration Policy Center, remained skeptical of the legislation.
"Nobody thought it would work when they passed it the last time," she told Cybercast News Service. "Recycling an old bill shows a real lack of creativity and practicality."
"The American people want real solutions - not throwing more money at the same old ineffective deportation-only approach," she said.
Jim Gilchrist, president of the Minuteman Project, however, welcomed the bill.
"I think reintroducing the bill will allow the electorate to participate," he told Cybercast News Service. "We're going to watch this a lot closer" this election cycle.
Duncan Hunter Endorses Mike Huckabee:
http://mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&ID=542
You go Congressman Hunter
Thank you sir...
I am so proud of you...
:)
PING
Congressman Hunter is busy trying to build the fence
:)
one step forward by Dunk, one step back.
Just read that elsewhere. He must think Huckabee is the least of three evils, though I can’t imagine why he’s endorse a guy who gave freebies to illegals. It’s significant it wasn’t Paul, though. There’ll be some hair raised over that.
Well, at least he’s still working.
the alaska pipeline was built in three years under extremely adverse conditions at an adjusted cost of about $30 billion, by american workers who were paid very generously.
the two years prior to the actual construction effort were spent planning, budgeting, and obtaining something like 3,500 state and federal permits.
the thing about this fence (and the “75 miles” allegedly built to date), who is building it? i don’t see or hear anything - not a peep - about the workforce that’s been hired, or what they’re paid, or how they live day-to-day, or how they’re recruited. nor has there been (to my recollection) a single minute of news showing the fence construction effort.
whereas most of us recall that the alaska pipeline project always seemed to be in the news.
it’s no surprise, but there’s something very fishy about this project.
1. Build the Fence
Ensure that an interlocking surveillance camera system is installed along the border by July 1, 2010.
Ensure that the border fence construction is completed by July 1, 2010.
The immigration policy center must be an Amnesty advocating, open-borders group. If nobody thought it would work, why in hell did they pass it? The fence worked in SD, so why would it not work along the entire border? Bush is directly responsible for this travesty, along with his fellow Texan, Kay Bailey. I hope Texans do me a favor and retire her and elect someone who will work to secure our borders.
The DEMS are advocating energy dependency, yet where do think all this energy is coming from to charge up the “clean” enegery??
And have they thought about disposal? Guess none of them have read the ingredients in the small recharagble batteries much less the ones that are scooting cars around.
Why aren’t we drilling Anwar and off the coast of Florida?
Windmills off the Coast of Nantucket/Martha’s Vineyards?
We see rigs already off the coast of Santa Barbara.
Oh, I forgot, not in my backyard -— ditto for nuclear plants.
BTW, for folks in Key West a bulletin....Chavez and Castro will probably have rigs up sooner than you can down one at the Hogs Breath Bar enfringing on the coast view of the USA anway!
It taks a Democratic Party to ruin a Country.
I don’t think it all that fishy. Jorge Bush never had any intention of building that fence and he knew it when he signed it. He stalled and played around until the electorate wasn’t looking and Kay Bailey stabbed us in the back for Jorge.
They both want energy independence. That is what they are saying. What I am saying is they would rather play along with the Global Warming nonsense than be independent. It can be done, we have single states with more energy potential in coal than Saudi Arabia has in oil. Clean Diesel from coal, that is how you do it. Instead of wasting money on ethanol and other nonsense, why doesn’t the government give some incentives to those willing to get refineries online and get this solved?
Absolutely correct. And cynically, what purpose in passing a new law when we apparently lack the ability to force this Administration or a future one to follow the law? There needs to be a fundamental change in orientation in the leadership in the US or more speechifying and paper laws will just enrich those enamored in process over substance.
I see a Huckabee/Hunter Ticket just around the corner...maybe will announce next week to try to salvage Huck in Florida.
I guess it’s true, Politics make strange bedfellows.
I’m a former Dunc supporter, now gone to Paul. His Huckabee endorsement is ridiculous.
Queer Bedfellows.
I am entirely dissappionted in Duncan.
Huckster cannot beat Hillary anyway!
That's correct, and I hope that Representative Hunter can push his new bill through.
Yeah, Thanks to Texas RINO Kay Bailey Huthinson !
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