Border Fence? $1.2 billion. Bush pandering to his base? PRICELESS.

[Human Torch]

Bush signs bill paying for new U.S. border fence
$1.2 billion for border part of $33.8 billion domestic security package

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131303/

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - President Bush on Wednesday signed a law that will pay for hundreds of miles of new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border, a move against illegal immigration that Republicans had sought before next month’s congressional elections.

Bush had hoped to address the illegal immigration issue in a comprehensive way that would have brought beefed-up border security as well as a temporary guest worker program allowing the immigrants to work legally in the United States.

He spent months advancing the idea but failed to overcome doubts from many Republicans on Capitol Hill who derided the guest worker program as an “amnesty” that would give illegal immigrants a route to citizenship.

Under the legislation, about $1.2 billion would be spent during the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 for southwest border fencing and other barriers. The money is part of a $33.8 billion package for domestic security programs that are being bolstered following the Sept. 11 attacks.



Mexican nationals peer through the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at Border Field State Park in San Ysidro, Calif., on Aug. 24.

[Ian David]

1. I see only TWO problems with the border fence

1) It's not long enough.

2) It's too far south. The fence belongs along the border between Texas and Oklahoma.



Let's give Texas back to Mexico, but make sure Bush is vacationing there when we kick it loose.

Let Bush stand on a corner waiting for a Mexican in a pick-up truck to pay him ten Pesos a day to clear brush.

This will suffice until we build a bigger wall along The Mason-Dixon Line and give The South back to France, Spain and The Iroquois.