No Fence + No Enforcement = No Bill
It now has been widely published that the Senate “voted for” the Border Fence before they “voted against it:”
“The Senate promised to build a 370-mile fence on the border with Mexico as part of a plan to shore up the most porous sections of the 2,000-mile southern border. The 370-mile fence is about a fifth of what needs to be done, but the experts told the Senate it was enough for now. A good down payment.
So the Senate voted for it. As you know, immigration reform is now in the hands of a conference committee of the Senate and House — not big hopes there since the House is dead set against a Senate plan which is heavy on guest-worker programs and light on border enforcement.
Thursday’s vote is going to make it worse. That’s because even though the Senate voted for 370 miles of fence, Thursday it voted down a proposal to actually spend the money to build it.”
But there was another amendment that has received scant attention:
“Mr. Sessions offered another amendment, which appropriated another $85.7 million to enable Homeland Security to hire 800 more full-time investigators to probe immigration-law violations. The vote against that amendment was 66-34. “
Sooo, if we are not going to pay for a fence and we are not going to pay for new enforcement investigators how is the 2006 Reid Kennedy Illegal Alien Bill different than the 1986 Bill?
They just don’t get it, do they?
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