Brewer signs bill authorizing Ariz. border fence

PHOENIX - A bill signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer authorizes erection of a security fence along Arizona's portion of the U.S.-Mexico border, either in a compact with other states or by itself.

Spokesman Matt Benson declined immediate comment Friday on why Brewer signed the bill Thursday and on whether she plans to invoke the authority.

The bill does not specify a cost or make an appropriation but says the state would use donations, inmate labor and private contractors.

Brewer recently asked President Barack Obama to extend the deployment of National Guard troops along the border and for more substantial border fences to block smugglers.

A 646-mile fence now covers about 30 percent of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.

Arizona is a major gateway for illegal immigrant entries and marijuana smuggling.

[documemts]

Oh yeah, this'll work! The Siegfried Line,.... Maginot Line,... The Brewer Fence. LOL!

[pasha128]

That's the Brewer "phantom" fence built without plans or funding or management. What's the odds the Mexicans have to repossess the fence because like Bush, Brewer's lack of management skills permit the fence to be built inside Mexico instead of inside of Arizona?

[jxknowles]

A lot of good that will do. Most illegals are probably coming into Arizona from Texas and California anyway, LOL.

[WeHappyFew]

I'm sadly unsurprised with the snarky responses below as they reveal that the posters indeed do not check the provenance of THEIR purchases.

Yes, I'm afraid to own, it does make me feel if not sanctimonious, maybe superior and perhaps a little 'smug'

As for my vehicle it's a many -hand-me-down so I really had no choice in it.An ancient Daimler Sovereign,being that its left hand drive stick shift it is imperative I know my way around the engine.

As for my principles, please do not concern yourself about buying them. Shocking an idea as you may find it, they are not for sale.

[WeHappyFew]

Yes, yes my husband has already informed my I either mean right hand drive or left hand traffic.

[luadda22]

by WeHappyFew May 1, 2011 7:11 AM EDT
AZ has strict laws for those hiring illegal usually smaller latino subcontractors not the companies and individuals two steps removed indirectly benefitting from illegal labor and subsequently driving the shadow economy with all its attendant problems.

Scratch the surface, people, just for a change.

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We, then by your same logic. Every time you go to the store, do you make sure that any produce you buy was picked by the United Farm Workers Union and not illegal workers? If not then you are just as guilty. You are personally the same "two steps removed" and are contributing, just as greatly, to the problem also.

[WeHappyFew]

Speak for yourself '22,
You have no idea absolutely 'fascist' I am about where I spend every single dollar I make. Who benefits,who are the shareholders, where the product is sourced, the tax status and employment record of the company with the exception of my Apple Mac and a percentage of my energy utilities.

It is the duty of every serious patriot.

I will not countenance mindless lip service. I would ask that you refrain from supposing everyone to be as uneducated and unmotivated as you appear to be.

[luadda22]

We, How presumptuous and churlish of you to hypothesize that I am benighted and lack a Doctorate of Pedagogy. In other words "bite me" and your ungracious attitude.

[user000049586849302948603]

I'm just wonder how long it will be until they get started. I guess we'll just have to keep checking back, for instance, every time those bigoted clowns are in the news.

[WeHappyFew]

The 2007 Legal Arizona workers act MAY fine, revoke license, and shut down business that INTENTIONALLY or KNOWINGLY employ illegal workers. These sanctions are not absolute and can involve companies repeated violation the statute. Well heck, that leaves a fair old bit of wriggle room for blackmail, discrimination and partisan ship.

Larger companies do not directly employ merely put contracts out to tender. The contractor then subcontracts.
The beneficiaries, in real terms, of the undocumented workforce are assuming none of the risk. As with the individual client of a business providing domestic, pool, gardening services, again, no risk. So no, this act is not solving the problem. It's simply absolving any legal responsibility from those driving the illegal immigrant economy thereby removing any impetus for change

The SCOTUS ruling on test case Chamber of Commerce V Whiting ( due june this year) goes to whether IIRIRA Act 1996 pre-empts this state law. To say Obama is wading in against Arizona is plain ignorant. His role as POTUS is to uphold federal law until amended by government or ruled on by the supreme court .

As for Brewer's shabby attempt at law making, SB 1070, a green law school undergrad could have run a coach and horses through that badly conceived piece of crap. A usual nothing but an empty gesture piece of grandstanding. It directly contravened so many federal laws it was garbage before it hit the printers.

As I said you have to stamp out the market for illegal worker if you are serious about removing the problem.

[WeHappyFew]

It is possible that if some posters possessed more than a 'Adult learner' McDegree in 'Business' (?!) they would have a better conceit of the subtle nuances of law and legislation.

[WeHappyFew]

As an addendum,
Contrary to the opinions of some bloggers the federal government accepts the E-verify system major flaw is it doesn't address (and in fact exacerbates) the problem of identity theft (often aggravated). The resultant thinking is a push for mandatory fingerprinting and biometrics..................

Deutschland! Deutschland! Uber alles!!

[MacNfries]

This "fence crap" is nothing but a big Republican sham to make the Arizona citizens THINK the Republicans are trying to control illegal immigration. The Republicans are NOT going to step on the toes of their BIG BUCKS contributors, so they spend money on a useless fence.
If they were REALLY serious about stopping illegal immigration, they would just pass & INFORCE a law making it illegal for any company doing business in Arizona to hire undocumented workers ... End Of Story ... they'd leave and go someplace else.
It's all SMOKE & MIRRORS with these politicians ... wish we could toss the whole lot of 'em in the Grand Canyon and fill it in ... the idiots.

[user000049586849302948603]

Exactly. Otherwise they would have put some money with this bill to "actually build" the thing. Republicans are all talk.

[WeHappyFew]

AZ has strict laws for those hiring illegal usually smaller latino subcontractors not the companies and individuals two steps removed indirectly benefitting from illegal labor and subsequently driving the shadow economy with all its attendant problems.

Scratch the surface, people, just for a change.

[formrusmcsgt]

Let AZ go broke building their wall.

[user000049586849302948603]

Actually, I think the SCOTUS might blow this out of the water before they turn one teaspoon of dirt.

[user000049586849302948603]

When does the Arizona legislature find time to do any actual business with all the time that they spend posturing? If they're really serious about building a state barrier then why didn't they fund it and do it? Evidently, they have mouths bigger than their wallets.

[user000049586849302948603]

More popcorn please. I can't wait to see what kind of "barrier" Arizonians actually end up erecting.

[user000049586849302948603]

by DJ_Independent April 30, 2011 6:27 PM EDT
Yea you might learn how to do something.

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Pathetic even by the standard of your normal nonsense.

[pasha128]

We did from your Donald Trump imitation earlier, DJ.