Is there a border which divides the territory of the United States and the territory of Mexico?
Are the United States and Mexico separate states?
Have millions of people broken U.S. laws and spilled into the country ILLEGALLY?
The answer to all of the above is YES.
In my view, it is irresponsible to NOT construct a barrier to thwart the law-breaking.
Mexicans or citizens of any other country cannot continue to disregard our immigration laws with impugnity.
The LA Times reports:
By a tally of 94 to 0, the Senate voted to limit debate on the bill to build a barrier to those trying to sneak across the border along two regions, one running from Calexico, Calif., to Douglas, Ariz., and the other in Laredo, Texas.
The fence bill is one piece of a broad bill that the House passed in July to curb immigration. The House, unable to win Senate support for its relatively punitive legislation, plans to break its bill into pieces and to send them to the Senate either as free-standing bills or as riders to spending bills. The fence bill is the first such piece.
..."I have always said we need an enforcement-first approach to immigration reform," Frist said. "Not enforcement only, but enforcement first."
Frist said the Senate would cast a final vote on the fence bill next week. "Securing our borders is a major step forward in addressing comprehensive immigration reform," he said.
I completely agree with Senator Frist.
A fence is the beginning of fixing a broken system.
The Dems, of course, aren't happy.
..."We can build the tallest fence in the world and it won't fix our broken immigration system," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "To do that we need the kind of comprehensive reform that the Senate passed earlier this year."
Reid and the Dems in the Senate would prefer to just say "NO" again, and do nothing.
The new bill advancing in the Senate would authorize the spending necessary to build the fences, but it would not make the money available. That would have to be done in a separate appropriations bill. Informal estimates put the cost of the fences in the Senate bill — 700 miles in all — at several billion dollars.
The cost of the fence shouldn't be a sticking point.
The cost to taxpayers to provide services for millions of illegal immigrants is far greater. Read more here.
It should be remembered that controlling our borders is not just about keeping illegal immigrants from entering the country to suck our education, welfare, and health systems dry.
If millions of illegal immigrants can make it in, so can one terrorist with a suitcase nuke. That argument is not a scare tactic to garner support for tougher border control. It's the frightening reality.
Ironically, the well being of the illegals that depended on lax border security to get here are at risk of being harmed in a terrorist attack because of the dismal border security.
Personally, I think on September 12, 2001 -- make that on the afternoon of 9/11 -- we should have started construction to seal our borders; not to alienate our allies Mexico and Canada, but to protect Americans.
Our history is marked by massive projects that span the nation.
By 1890, the American frontier was closed by the completion of the transcontinental railroad. We have interstate highways that crisscross the country.
Surely, we can build a fence to help secure the future of the United States.
Unfortunately, Dems are likely to engage in obstruction and fight the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
You can tell the Dems in the Senate that you support the Republicans and their efforts to achieve border security by calling the offices of Dem Senators and urging them to work with Republicans.
You can join the campaign by going to Secure America's Borders.
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