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Here We Go Again
December 18th 2007 Immigration, Election08

Hey, yahoos! Congress is weakening the border fence. - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine

The 2006 Secure Fence Act specifically called for “two layers of reinforced fencing” and listed five specific sections of border where it should be installed. The new spending bill removes the two-tier requirement and the list of locations.

Defenders of the changes (i.e. Sen. Hutchison of Texas) argue that the Department of Homeland Security should have discretion to “utilize limited resources.” But the whole problem is that nobody trusts President Bush’s Department of Homeland Security. Or anybody’s Department of Homeland Security, for that matter. Whoever is president, DHS will always have a bureaucratic bias toward expanding its budget by employing more DHS personnel–e.g. border patrol agents–and less cheap, inanimate fencing. They can’t be expected to stand up to the businesses and local interests and ACLU lawyers and diplomats who hate the fence and will always lobby against it.

Bush and the rest of the amnesty for illegals RINOs are determined to have their way. I won’t vote for any candidate who agrees with them. That leaves out McCain and Huckabee and probably Giuliani. With Rudy, I guess it depends on how much you trust his Appointment in Samarra conversion. As for me, not much.

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  • Billy Hollis
    December 18th, 2007 | #1

    Bush and the rest of the amnesty for illegals RINOs are determined to have their way. I won’t vote for any candidate who agrees with them. That leaves out McCain and Huckabee and probably Giuliani.

    Well, we can’t count Romney as particularly strong on that issue either. Here’s what he said in 2005:

    GOV. ROMNEY: I think an amnesty program is what, which is all the illegal immigrants who are here are now citizens,

    Unidentified Man: Mm-hmm.

    GOV. ROMNEY: …and a walk up and get your citizenship. What the president has proposed,

    Man: Mm-hmm.

    GOV. ROMNEY: …and, and what Senator McCain and Cornyn have proposed, are, are quite different than that.

    Man: Mm-hmm.

    GOV. ROMNEY: They require people signing up for a, a, well, registering and receiving, if you will, a number, a registration number, then working here for six years and paying taxes…

    Man: Mm-hmm.

    GOV. ROMNEY: …not taking benefits–health, Medicaid, food stamps, and so forth–not taking benefits, and then at the end of that period, registering to become a citizen or applying to become a citizen and paying a fee. And, and those are things that are being, being considered, and I, I think that that’s–that those are reasonable proposals.

    When pressed on that by Tim Russert on Meet the Press this week, Romney did not come out with a solid repudiation. He tried to finesse it by saying that he wasn’t really in favor of those proposals at the time, but just thought they were reasonable. Whatever that means. To me, it means he’s afraid to come right out and say, “I hadn’t really thought it through at the time, but now I have, and those proposals were a bad idea, and here’s what I now think we ought to do.” That’s about the only answer I would have been even close to satisfied with.

  • SDN
    December 18th, 2007 | #2

    I guess I need to send Hutchison another nastygram this week. Eternal vigilance……

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