Lots of talk last week surrounding the late September passage of the Border bill, blogged about here by me as a member of Bill Frist's secureamericasborders.com volunteer team. The talk was the fence is nothing but a shell game, re-election campaign fodder, etc etc. And that was coming from the mouths of many conservatives, not just liberals.
Below is a story that clarifies well enough for me the whitewash the story got from The WashPo last week was disingenous in the very least when declaring this fence would not be built.
Below is a story that clarifies well enough for me the whitewash the story got from The WashPo last week was disingenous in the very least when declaring this fence would not be built.
FrontPage magazine.com :: The Truth About the Border Fence by Michael Reagan: "For reasons I’ll never understand, some of my fellow conservative talk-show hosts have turned to that bible of liberalism – The Washington Post – to get the “facts” about the U.S.-Mexico border fence just authorized by Congress.
If they wanted to get the real story – and not the misleading one they read in the October 6 edition of the Post – they could easily have done what I did and called Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-CA, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the man who wrote the bill mandating the building of the 700-mile border fence.
Chairman Hunter knows what he is talking about. He also wrote a bill in the 1990s during the Clinton administration that created the 14-mile-long double fence in San Diego.
The new bill, he told me, uses the same language as his first bill and will have the same effect – the fence will be built despite the Post’s insistence that it won’t. The bill doesn’t say the fence will be built or may be built – it says flatly that it shall be built. "Read More
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