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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 08:30 AM
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Joementum's m.o. : First, grab a misleading headline.Then, take a crap in Paragraph #2 (border wall)
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100420/ap_on_bi_ge/us_border_security_3;_ylt=A0geujHV.s5L5YMAwwOspph4

Senators call for scrapping 'virtual fence'


WASHINGTON – Two senators said Tuesday it's time to consider ending a contract for a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, contending it doesn't stop illegal immigration.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., even suggested an old-fashioned, real fence may work better than the electronic one designed by Boeing Co.

"We're counting on you to give us a direct assessment and take action to either terminate the contract or take from it what may work," Lieberman told Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin.

Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said at a hearing on border security: "The best answer to this continuing crisis and continued flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. is to go back to the old-style fences, double- and triple-tiered, and layered."

Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., asked Bersin whether the contract could be canceled. Bersin said he was not able to render a judgment on a legal issue. ....

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(Other lesson: Never ditch old URLs (below). They invariably become current again.)


http://www.notexasborderwall.com/
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