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| House backs fence along border with Mexico |
| 2006-09-15 |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday authorized building a fence along portions of the border with Mexico in a vote critics said had more to do with election year politics than controlling illegal immigration. The Republican-written bill, approved on a vote of 283-138, calls for construction of about 700 miles of fence along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. Democratic opponents said the measure was a charade designed to help Republicans ahead of the November 7 elections. President George W. Bush backs comprehensive legislation and a guest worker program and spoke about the need for it during a meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol on Thursday. But the issue divides Republicans. Many feel the Senate bill would grant amnesty to people who broke U.S. law and it is unlikely a broad immigration bill will pass this year. Instead, House Republican leaders plan to pass a series of border security measures before lawmakers break at the end of the month to campaign for the elections. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said the fence and other efforts would be added to a domestic security spending bill for next year that the House and Senate are hoping to finish by the end of the month. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 Walls don't work without funded border security, This whole plan is complete horseshit. A fence with Canada too! They could have stopped illegal border crossing long ago, had they only the will to do it. Thing is, they don't NAFTA=North American Union. |
| Posted by: Omailing Glease5398 2006-09-15 20:52 |
| #4 What Broadhead6 said. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-09-15 16:52 |
| #3 BTW - before we start talking comprehensive stuff, let's just get the damn fence up first. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-09-15 16:50 |
| #2 Why not a 2,000 mile fence, just to be sure? (if it's worth shooting, it's worth shooting twice) |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-09-15 16:48 |
| #1 "...would be added to a domestic security spending bill for next year that the House and Senate are hoping to finish by the end of the month." Can't you just picture Nancy Pantsuit standing next to Opie Reid with a furrowed brow and hands on hip; Oh yeah...we'll jus..just se..see about that. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2006-09-15 15:11 |