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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY
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To: bentway who wrote (1175)10/12/2006 8:38:01 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire  Read Replies (3) of 3197
 
Hold the phone on that. Don't uncork the champagne bottles. The bourgeoisie may have been snookered again.

The fine print in the bill (or so says The Washington Post) gives the government an escape hatch to take the money supposedly earmarked for a border fence and spend it instead on other projects, such as roads, or to allow the Department of Homeland Security the option of its preferred "virtual fence." Also, Indian tribes, members of Congress, governors, and local leaders would have a say as to "exact placement" of the fence.

Moreover, as Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) has noted, "It's one thing to authorize. It's another thing to actually appropriate the money and do it."

Like most legislative weasel words and monkey wrenches that you're not supposed to know about, the contradictory wording of the bill was inserted in the dark of night while you slept. It was hammered out in the final pre-election session of Congress as a concession to the open borders crowd.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a solid supporter of meaningful border protection, disputes the Post interpretation. He says the bill plainly says that the fence "shall" be built. It is not an option, he adds, regardless of other wording in the document. You can bet the lawyers are licking their chops on that one. The very fact that the legislation's meaning is in doubt reflects strong determination by many politicians that no real border security will ever happen, period.
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