We got the fence!

Posted by Moonage on 17 May 2006 | Tagged as: National Security

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.

Good

…open-border days are over. … Good fences make good neighbors, fences don€™t make bad neighbors,€¯ said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

Very true. Now I want the same fence on the Canadian border to keep Neil Young out.

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  1. on 17 May 2006 at 9:44 pm 1.Stormwarning's Counterterrorism said …

    Border Security BEFORE Amnesty

    AMNESTY…well the article actually says guest worker, but we all know what that really means. Also, please see my friend Moon’s post on the subject of the fence.Senate votes to build border fenceSupporters of a Senate immigration bill defeated attempts

  2. on 18 May 2006 at 9:35 am 2.Moonage Political Webdream said …

    How close do you need to be to the border to feel you KNOW the border problems?

    Reading from Powerline, here’s the list of who voted AGAINST the border wall: Akaka (D-HI)Bingaman (D-NM)Cantwell (D-WA)Dodd (D-CT)Durbin (D-IL)Feingold (D-WI)Inouye (D-HI)Jeffords (I-VT)Kennedy (D-MA)Lautenberg (D-NJ)Lieberman (D-CT)Menendez (D-NJ)Mur…

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