Comments on: Bush To Use Waivers To Finish Border Fence

Administration To Sidestep 30 Laws And Regulations To Battle Illegal Immigration

[timaran]

"Build the fence. Protect your home and your country.

Build the fence. This is not about politics. It''''s about people breaking the law, entering this nation illegally."

Yes, it is about politics. The Great Wall of China did not keep "illegals" out. Hadrian''s Wall did not keep "illegals" out. The Berlin Wall did not keep eastern Germans in. Where there is a fence, there is a ladder one foot taller. This border fence will NOT keep illegal aliens out. Better funding for staffing of border patrol and better surveillence equipment would go a lot further. But, we can''t afford that anymore, can we?

This is only a political ploy to try to convince the gullible that this administration is "doing something" about the border after nearly eight years of doing nothing about it. Oh, and let''s break umpteen laws and take people''s land away from them while they do it. All in a days work for this sorry regime.

[leftyintexas]

Doofus hasn''t done anything right his entire life. It just goes to show you ANYONE can become President in this country, even a moron with enough money. How unfortunate for this country! The fence is a total waste of money just like his Iraq War. Money and lives lost for NOTHING!

[formrusmcsgt]

For those who are all gung ho about building a wall, I''ll ask this.

If you were a terrorist wanting to infiltrate the country, are you going to use a route with a wall or would you cross from Canada where there are thousands of miles of open country along the border?

It sounds great on paper, but closing one border while the other remains wide open is absurd.

[ryindy]

Had the fence been started in 1964 after the first amnesty, it would have long been finished and the illegal alien crisis as it is known today would not even exist.

[lucasnico]

Yep, Big Pharm Sue is right again!! Just bypass those 30 laws....it''s what we''ve come to expect and get from this administration.

[kansas1946]

Although I despise Bush, I am glad to see him finally use executive power to get something useful done instead of using executive priviledge to try and bash the constitution. It has taken almost eight years for him to do something useful.

[cfin5]

Hey, while the President has his Waiver Booklet out, how about giving some waivers to whoever builds those Oil Refineries that haven''t been built since I was a kid. Everybody gripes about the price of oil (including me) yet won''t allow the means to keep the prices down. Sign the waivers for wherever theres oil to be drilled for. Those Caribou and Moose are getting awfully expensive to worry about over nothing. Folks act like they''re gonna poke a hole every 300yrd. apart for half the size of Alaska. No, they drill one main hole and use directional drilling tech to branch off near the bottom. Get a side picture in your head of a tree upside down with the bottom of the trunk at ground level. Think of the amount of work that that would provide a breadwinner for his/her family.......Now, for the other side of the story. Any oil company that does not implement any fuel saving tech patent that they hold within a year should be made to cede the rights to the tech to whoever wants to put it to work.......Whatever it takes! Somebody get off their lazy public servant canassticator and do your job!

[p-syrus]

NONSENSE!

This isn''t about "illegal immigration". This is about corporate welfare. Fencing the border along the u.s. southwest is an ineffective technique for controlling traffic flow. It is an excellent excuse, however, for large & useless contracts to well-connected corporate suppliers.

The terrain is simply too rough and the climate too harsh. Maintenance on the fence will be a cost-prohibitive nightmare. Nor will a fence be effective in keeping regular traffickers from crossing the border.

Just another boondoggle for Bush''s corporate cronies.

[joyous88]

the life of the entire republicon corruption

has been a waiver, a waiver of greed versus humanity,

and in the republicon/cpnservative lexigon greed wins,

these republicons are nothing but anti american criminals

read the bill of rights and the constitution, and than

if you are an honest man, yopu will see the repuiblicons for what they are

greed driven anti american criminals

[nodemotwit]

Seems to me like some mayors are being idiot obstructionists - either out of spite, or because they or their constituents want the illegal vote.
Posted by SusanHelit

I 100pct agree. And while illegal aliens are a problem, drug runners and the crime they bring to both sides of the border are as big if not bigger problem. I suspect that once a fence of substance is in place that the resulting inflow of border crime into the remaining self-centered, obstructionistic hold-out towns will quickly bring them to their senses.

But personally I would prefer a more substantial Israeli-style wall on our southern border. We can drop 3 Tril $ on Iraq BUT can''t spend a few hundred Bil $ to build an true security wall on our southern border, nor properly staff and arm our Border Patrol ?? Forcing drug runners to ship their illegal contraband (drugs, guns, etc) by sea or by air will be easier to track and apprehend. And, as a side effect, it will also become too expensive for the illegals that are the grist of the coyote trade. Harshly prosecute the remaining US business that employ illegals. Then give a selected number on non-Americans [who want to work in the US, but do not want and have no intention of ever becoming Americans, some of whom will even call ''gringos'' prejudiced (but, strangely, Viva La Raza! is OK...)] work permits and let them enter the US legally, and work legally, then let them go home.