Senate passes border enforcement amendment (3 billion dollars)

Source: United States Senate homepage

“There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000,000 to satisfy the requirements set out in section 1002(a) and, if any amount remains after satisfying such requirements, to achieve and maintain operational control over the international land and maritime borders of the United States, for employment eligibility verification improvements, for increased removal and detention of visa overstays, criminal aliens, aliens who have illegally reentered the United States, and for reimbursement of State and local section 287(g) expenses. These amounts are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 204 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress).”


Read more: http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00278

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Senators Compromise on Border Security
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats and Republicans came together Thursday to devote an additional $3 billion to gaining control over the U.S.-Mexico border, putting Congress on a path to override President Bush's promised veto of a $38 billion homeland security funding bill.

The deal resurrects a GOP plan launched Wednesday to pass some of the most popular elements of Bush's failed immigration bill, including money for additional Border Patrol agents and fencing along the southern border.

Democrats liked the money but objected to such GOP proposals as allowing law enforcement officers to question people about their immigration status and cracking down on those who overstay their visas.

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But Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, resolved their differences overnight and announced agreement Thursday morning. Cornyn won a promise to have some of the money used to go after immigrants who had entered the United States legally but had overstayed their visas.

Reid had apparently thought earlier that Cornyn wanted harsher language.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3956234.html

By my calculations, that should save us around 84 billion smackeroos!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

I just hope all of you who have fallen for the 'hate the others' campaign are real happy about the guns and fences that are going to be used to keep us inside the prison.

Once we get all the illegals out then the corporate farms will raise their wage scale and hire DUers for $12/hr. DUers will also go to the poultry factories and pluck chickens for the same wage and make beds and work as domestic servants for the wealthy. Oh what a happy day!

Good, Lord, would it not be cheaper to give a nice healthy does of WORK that pays a livable wage in Mexico than to build a fence/moat/laser station/death ray or whatever they have in mind? I wonder what would happen if 10,000 people just decided to cross every border crossing at once? Could the crowd even be managed w/o fire?

(to be built by Halliburton, because they are the only ones who can do it, for sure) but not one more dime for enfocing our labor laws, and no penalties for employers who fire Americans to hire illegal immigrants.

What a joke.