Did you see that the border fence is under Republican attack in the Senate? Are you writing your Senator?

Question

The fence bill may come up for a vote near the end of the week, but they are tying the detainee bill to it, so that has to come up first. The REPUBLICAN Senators (granted we expected it of the Democrat Senators) are saying things from 'well maybe if it is 370 miles not 700 like the bill we passed' and 'I want to tie agricultural workers to it to let it pass'. It is being held hostage.

Will you contact your Senator and ask that they pass H.R.6061 without change or gamesmanship, and that they FUND it?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-congress-border-fence,1,5145542.story

Sergio, California spends more than that on benefits for illegal immigrants in a single year.

Tegaras - any bottle neck created by tunnels, etc., would slow the flow significantly from what we have now. Also, while I agree it is too short, the one in San Diego was quite effective. It also reduced crime dramatically on both sides of the border in that location.

Look it up.

Answer 1

Oh no, I knew it would be too good to be true .... and Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, who wanted a farming bill attached to it was vehemently supported by your friend, Dianne Feinstein, in fact they prepared the bill together ... I agree with you, we need HR6061 as it stands now, without any embellishments, and with funding attached ... why can't these people just for once do something straightforward?

Answer 2

I live in Canada (BC) and it has been in our local news this past week that the fence is coming to the border here, too. Most Canadians seem to not be too bothered about it as they see it as good security for both countries. Here, it is going to be the virtual fence, more so than an actual physical fence, but it is going to cost billions of dollars. Hey, it would take many, many billions of dollars before it ever exceeded the cost of illegal immigrants, drugs transporters, and terrorists to the USA!

Answer 3

In Response To Sergio D. (Above)
See :
Cost 0f 1,891 Mile
Mexican/U.S. Border Fence = 14 Days of Iraq War
Posted by The Watchdog -
August 6th, 2006
VDARE

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 least 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
(all 1,891 miles of it)
for $3.3 billion dollars.

Iraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.

Cost/benefit analysis, anyone?






There WILL Be A Fence (Wall)
And Deportation Of All ILLEGAL ALIENS Upon Discovery
Is Already Beginning

Get Used To The Idea

Answer 4

Correction-Immigrants legally acquire get admission to to a rustic by potential of soliciting for to return right here by way of INS. the individuals you're attempting to preserve broke the regulation by potential of unlawful get admission to and are not immigrants. they are unlawful extraterrestrial beings. you're status up for criminals who're draining our social risk-free practices, welfare, scientific institution care, and so on. they are utilizing automobiles with invalid licenses, no coverage. they are warding off paying taxes and putting undue traces on college money. confident, make that fence take place all alongside the Mexican border. Take the loads of hundreds of illegals who're in penitentiary right here and deliver them lower back to Mexico or everywhere they got here from. we don't prefer THEM right here.

Answer 5

The fence like in defense?

Actually the fence ought be extended to take in Crawford Texas along with it. Add that to the bill and 80% will vote for it!

Answer 6

Omg, they can't be bothered spending 8 million dollars on a fence!!
Wwhen Illegal scum costs 68 billion a year to support.

Answer 7

Building a fence is a waste of our tax dollars. You don't put up a fence to keep gophers out do you? You don't build a fence to keep birds from landing on your property do you?

IF the fence/wall was built it would simply be a symbolic gesture. Haven't you people been reading the papers? They dig tunnels, bribe border patrol agents to get in (big sting, 12 agents indicted). Why waste money on a fence?

Answer 8

i think they should build a prison the whole length of the border and put all american prisoners in it. the people crossing into the US would have to break into a prison and then back out of it to get here. can you imagine the irony of getting caught in prison trying to do something illegal?

Answer 9

A fence will not fix the problem, I highly doubt it will make a dent in the problem.

Answer 10

actually, the fence is not going to happen

they have already decided it is too expensive and too much work

(over 8 billion dollars)