October 04, 2006

Cornyn: border fence won't happen, just a "symbolic gesture"

From this:

Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and key liaison to the White House on immigration, said Tuesday that 700 miles of fencing approved by Congress will probably not be built because of a lack of money and other practical considerations.

"It's one thing to authorize. It's another thing to actually appropriate the money and do it," he told reporters.

Cornyn predicted that some fencing would be built as part of a comprehensive strategy that includes more Border Patrol agents, more technology, more detention facilities and various physical barriers.

Uh huh. No doubt that "comprehensive" strategy would include all the other things normally associated with that term, including a massive amnesty and a "guest" worker program.

Then, like Lionel Hutz informing us that there's the truth and there's the "truth":

"There's different kinds of fencing ... there's the old fence post and barbed wire, and then there's the virtual fence which is a combination of physical barriers, people, and technology and I think, in the end, that will probably be how this is addressed," he said.

Then, almost as if he was reading it from the same card as all the others:

Cornyn added that 700 miles of fencing would not solve the problem of illegal immigration because it would still leave about 1,300 miles of unfenced border.

Then, he informs us that this was all just for show:

Cornyn defended the Senate vote for the fencing, saying that it was an important symbolic gesture to show that Congress is serious about protecting the border.

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Posted to Immigration at October 4, 2006 04:39 AM

Comments

Remember the story of the emperor's new clothes? This is Emperor George's new fence. You can't see it, but we're supposed to believe that it's there. Virtual fences work fine for virtual border-crossers. For real ones, you need a real fence. There's a state prison a few miles from my house. They use real fences.

Posted by: dchamil at October 4, 2006 06:43 AM

This story illustrates why we need enforcement first. This is exactly what happened in 1986. We were promised amnesty first and then for only about 1-1.5 million illegal aliens with strict enforcement right behind that. What we got was amnesty for 2.7 million illegal aliens, massive fraud, a high level of family re-unification and chain migration, and finally no enforcement and now 20+ million illeagl aliens.

Posted by: D Flinchum at October 4, 2006 08:26 AM