Finally, Someone With A Brain!?

Question

Just giving you guys a lil taste of whats going on in the House...

Speaker Hastert: If We Can Protect Iraq's Borders…We Can Protect Our Own Borders:

Last week Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) told a Chicago radio station, "What we need to do is seal our border. If someone is bleeding to death, first of all, you stop the bleeding. We need to stop the bleeding. We can seal the border." The Speaker confidently stated that the United States can stop illegal aliens from crossing the nation's borders. He also said that Congress needs to take immigration legislation one step at a time and that the priority should be protecting our borders. "I always say if we can protect Iraq's borders against Syria and Jordan, we can protect our own borders," said the Speaker.

For more information, click here to review this past weeks performance on Capitol Hill...

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=leg_legislationmain&JServSessionIdr005=78i3osuas1.app6a

Finally?

--Rob

Answer 1

"I always say
if we can protect Iraq's borders
against Syria and Jordan,
we can protect our own borders,"
said the Speaker.


Below is a sample of homeland security items
in the FY2007 Budget,
their estimated costs,
and the time it takes the Pentagon to burn through
the same amount in Iraq.

* 1,500 new Border Patrol agents:
$459 million ($306,000 per agent)
Iraq spending equivalent: 1.9 days

* Container Security Initiative (CSI)
to pre-screen U.S.-bound cargo
at more than 40 foreign ports:
$139 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 13.9 hours.

* An additional 6,700 Detention Bed Spaces
to replace “catch and release” with a “catch and return” policy:
$410 million.
Iraq spending equivalent: 1.7 days

* An enhanced Worksite Enforcement program
to “send a strong deterrence message to employers
who knowingly hire illegal workers…”:
$41.7 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 4.2 hours

* Border technology to enhance electronic surveillance:
$100 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 10 hours

* 18 additional Fugitive Operations teams (raising the total to 70)
dedicated to catching the estimated 450,000 individuals
who have absconded following their deportation orders:
$30 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 10 hours

* Completion of the San Diego Border Infrastructure System,
including multiple fences and patrol roads:
$30 million
Iraq spending equivalent: 3 hours

And now for the grand finale.
Although this last item is the Most costly,
it may yield one of the biggest benefits.

After the first 10 miles of border fence was completed,
arrests of illegal immigrants
trying to cross the San Diego border sector plummeted
from about 25,000 per year to 3,000 per year.
But of course the San Diego fence
pushed the illegal influx eastward,
into the (less hospitable) Arizona desert.

A serious commitment to border security
would require fencing off the entire southern border—
all 1,891 miles of it.
(For comparison, we have 40,000 miles of Interstate highways.)

At $1.7 million per mile
(the cost of the first 10 mile stretch in San Diego),
the entire U.S.-Mexican border could be sealed off
for $3.3 billion dollars.

Iraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.

Cost/benefit analysis, anyone?






We need to stop the bleeding
we need to seal our border

Answer 2

You bypass Yahoo! finally, our making consistent exciting of her and seeing her for the souless Disney zombie she is has paid off. After that overview, i think complete. =) Ah, if only that they had come down on the JoBros next... MQ: 80's and ninety's. Granted, some stable issues got here out , yet neither could even study to the 60s and 70s musically (remember the 80s-90s crapped out boy bands, Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, Rick Astley, and Limp Bizkit) .

Answer 3

Why should we spend billiions more on building walls and lining our borders with troops when if we want to keep illigals out all we have to do is go after the business that higher them. We can't protect our borders from some one with money they will always be able to get in look at drug dealers and we spend billions every year trying to catch them. We should spend our money where it counts finding and tracking the real terrorists not on a useless war in Iraq.

Answer 4

This has been one of my points all along. It is difficult, But we need to know what is going on in Washington. This is a democracy isn't it? Everyone that wants to be somebody. Vote in Novemeber, and Vote in 08. Vote Vote Vote. That is the only real way we have of doing anything in washington. Hastert has the right idea....follow him......

Answer 5

Yeaaa! Lets just hope something is done to back up the talk.

Answer 6

Maybe you should write a letter to the editor or create a website. This one is for questions and answers.

Answer 7

I think the problem is more ppl coming in.yes it needs to be fixed.

Answer 8

the house bill,,, which will protect our borders,, the senate bill will not,, the president supports the senate bill on illegal immigration,,,

Answer 9

Finally, somebody with a brain !

Answer 10

I agree.