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Title: Congress dismisses building additional Mexico fence
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URL Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108393§ionid=3510203
Published: Oct 12, 2009
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2009-10-12 20:58:22 by Horse
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Views: 89
Comments: 4
The US Congress has rejected to erect another 300 miles of tall fencing on the Mexico border, as Washington struggles to stop smugglers and illegal immigrants from entering the US soil. Congress scrapped an appropriation bill by the Department of Homeland Security that envisaged equipping another 300 miles of US-Mexico border with fencing. Lawmakers said the requested funds should be used in alternative ways to boost security, the Associated Press reported Saturday. By dropping the plan, lawmakers echoed the sentiments expressed by officials and residents along the southwest border who maintained that the additional fencing would be unproductive and inefficient. Congressmen also refrained from endorsing an amendment to the bill by Senator Jim DeMint which suggested equipping 700 miles of the nearly 2000-mile-border with Mexico with walls, fences and barriers to ward off illegal immigrants and smugglers. "The DeMint amendment represented an unproductive and inefficient border security strategy," US Rep. Henry Cuellar said in a prepared statement Thursday. "We need to invest and secure our border and our land ports without being tied down to an amendment that is out of touch with border needs." The US faces dire conditions in its border with Mexico, as increasing number of immigrants use this border to cross into the country while drug smugglers use the same border to have access to the lucrative US drug market. The General Accounting Office reported last month that maintaining the border fence would cost $6.5 billion during the next 20 years. That would be on top of the $2.4 billion spent to build it. RB/MD
Poster Comment: "We need to invest and secure our border and our land ports without being tied down to an amendment that is out of touch with (Mexico's) border needs."
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#1. To: Horse. all (#0)
This is completely maddening. We give trillions to Wall Street, and won't spend pennies on a secure wall? What the hell has China had to spend on a real border wall over the centuries? Damn them all to hell.
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Every cocksucking Traitor working for the enemy within must be hanged by the neck until dead and then shot twice in the head; twice in the heart for good measure. I know it seems wasteful when they can be run through but it sends a positive message...IMO
Shoulda built a navy too. They actually had a fairly impressive one for a while, but in the end it was just the whim of an emperor that didn't last.
The western world’s first parliament, called the Althing, was established in Iceland. It has convened every year without exception since 911 AD.
The General Accounting Office reported last month that maintaining the border fence would cost $6.5 billion during the next 20 years. That would be on top of the $2.4 billion spent to build it.
#2. To: Horse (#0)
#3. To: Horse (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#4. To: Lod (#1)
What the hell has China had to spend on a real border wall over the centuries?
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