Senate votes for fence on southern U.S. border

[Roon]

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday, and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.

Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for conservatives seeking to place their stamp on the contentious measure.

The prospects were less favorable for their attempt to strip out portions of the legislation that could allow citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants and create new guest worker programs.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12838263/

[AngryAmish]

1. Here we go

[sweetheart]

2. bigger bigger

bush build the fence higher, 10,000 feet high,
build it deeper, 10,000 feet deep,
build it 10,000 feet wide and we can build
condo's on top of it and people could live there.

How do you come up with these brilliant ideas!
invest the entire world's goodwill and economy in to a
wall to keep away the poor. Arm the wall with gun
battlements to keep them at bay... a new west bank
on the south bank.

[katty]

10. next fence will be around WH, o wait, there already is one!

The symbolism of this vote is dripping with irony.

[coalition_unwilling]

3. Would it not be ironic if, having issued the contract to one of

their cronies, the fence were built by undocumented construction workers? :)

And they said irony was dead after 9/11 :)

[warrens]

4. Invest in the shovel futures market...snicker

[katty]

5. Senate Votes for 370 Miles of fencing along Mexican border

more:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12838263/

Senate votes for fence on southern U.S. border
Body votes for 370 miles of fencing, clashes over citizenship
• Senate votes to take money away from Bush Iraq war plan to increase border security.
• Bush seeks 'middle ground' on immigration


• BREAKING NEWS

Updated: 3:07 p.m. ET May 17, 2006
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday, and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.

Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for conservatives seeking to place their stamp on the contentious measure.

[bdamomma]

6. a fence will not stop illegal immigration

what's next building a wall, to keep us in and them out. and who will build it, since the illegals will be out.

[katty]

7. going the way of Israel

[wrate]

23. Exactly my thoughts. n/t

[Star]

13. When they say "fence"

do they really mean "wall", like they do in Israel? A 30-foot high cement "fence" to keep them out or us in.

No, no its nothing at all like the Berlin Wall. Whatever are you thinking? <sarcasm>

[Blackhatjack]

11. Don't Fences Keep People Inside As Well? Like the Berlin Wall?

Is that not how barriers work??

[KansDem]

8. Photo here...

The tower will be used by the Minute Men
Portapotties will be donated by Free Republic

[RCinBrooklyn]

9. To be built on the cheap by illegal immigrant labor.

[katty]

12. right! if you build it...they'll Still come

[Raine]

18. No prolly some crooked scum

company like Halliburton will get a contract to build it and charge three times the price to do it.

[Haole Girl]

14. I assume Halliburton will get the no bid contract. n/t

[High Plains]

15. Oh, goody. I feel so much safer now.

Uh, but what about the other 1600 miles?

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Say... Why don't they use this money to catch Bin Laden?

I hear tell that he's a slightly greater threat to the US than undocumented workers.

Wait... He's already thrown $400 billion of our taxpayer dollars at Bin Laden and no luck so far. Oh well.

[LostinVA]

21. Or seed fund National heath care?

[KamaAina]

25. Or rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast?

I hear money goes pretty far in "that part of the world"... :sarcasm:

[LostinVA]

32. Or make Native American reservations NOT be Third World standards?

[Sapere aude]

17. Senate voted to outlaw metal cutters and tunnels.

I remember a line in the movie Patton. "Fixed fortifications are a monument to stupidity, if mountains and rivers can be overcome, anything built by man can be overcome."

[Rex]

19. No bid contract to Halliburton.

I called it.

[Doctor_J]

20. Time to buy Halliburton

sounds like a juicy one

[marions ghost]

22. boondoggle

I don't ever think I've seen a more idiotic idea for dealing with a complex social problem. But that's the present congress. What Dems voted for this?

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Not as pretty as the Great Wall of China ... but should be as effective.

*SNARK*

[KamaAina]

26. "Senor Bush, tear down this wall!"

Cripes. The only coherent moment of the entire St. Raygun presidency had to do with tearing down a wall. Now his self-anointed spiritual heirs wish to erect one in its stead -- right here at home. :grr: :banghead:

edit: can't even bang my head straight...

[54anickel]

27. Oh Jeez, your subject line has me LOL...I needed that after reading

the article - had my blood pressure way up there.

[cureautismnow]

28. The Senators who voted for this nonsense should pay for it.

Quit wasting taxpayer time and dollars on ridiculous, political pandering. Either immediately deduct the expense of said fence from the senators' paychecks or work on something important for a change - like balancing the friggin' budget and paying off the nat'l debt. Jeez.

"The Fool(s) on the Hill see the sun going down,
and the eyes in their head(s) see the world spinning 'round."

[superconnected]

29. Good! Whew! I can still get out through canada.

as far as these mexicans coming over the border, someone should warn them about what they're walking into. I mean even without the fence. Would they really want to come if they knew about Bush and Diebold?

The fence is a tell tale sign of where this country is going. Pick on the marginalized first. take money we don't have to show them how much we hate them and build a fence to placate the racists.

And then the fact that they just voted to cut off half of the rest of our exits...

[anitar1]

30. Now if they can only find illegals to build it. n/t

[blondeatlast]

31. Dear Senators, have you ever visited the POE at Nogales or Tijuana?

Because I have, and I can tell you that I've seen some amazing feats of gymnastics and athleticism at them both.

Simply as a tourist, I've seen:

Several men try to squeeze through the bars at the revolving gates--and damn near succeed. :scared:

Breakneck runs right past the guards inside the guardhouses--successfully.

Over, under, every which way.

If you think this silly wall is gonna help--DAMN YOU.

It's the fucking employers, stup--er I mean, Senator.