Sunday, October 01, 2006

[immigration] fencing them out

Sending a message: coffins with notes in Spanish line the San Diego border control fence

The Orange County Register: After 18 months of hearings and lobbying, citizens patrolling the borders and hundreds of thousands of people marching in the streets, the debate has produced a fence. Sometime in the next few days President Bush is likely to sign the bill authorizing 700 miles of it along the border with Mexico. What the president won't be signing is a bill that meets his goals of border enforcement combined with a guest-worker program and a plan for legalizing millions of undocumented people. In the past couple of days GOP leaders were intent on making sure the fence bill got to the president's desk before the Election Day recess so all amendments were dispensed with. A quite vexed issue currently in the southern USA but at least the porn industry will suffer.

1 comment:

  1. I remember seeing a TV programme about this in the UK. We have a big problem with immigration in the UK, but then we are a tiny island, but we give very generous cash handouts to all EU citizens and that's why they like to come here. Many people are upset that they can't get jobs now because the migrant workers are better, there are problems with racism too.

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