THE TRICKS THEY PLAY ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.


Steve Elliott, President

Grassfire.org Alliance


12/12/2007



Today, Jerome Corsi of WorldNet Daily has posted a story regarding
the Hutchison amendment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
appropriations bill.

In the article, congressional staffers confirm that the amendment
does, in fact, give DHS discretion over the location of the
fence. Even more, DHS would not be required to build the
double-layer fence mandated by the Secure Fence Act.

Go here to read the article:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59159

The plain fact is that Congress passed a law that mandated a
double-layer fence covering 854 miles of our southern border.
That is what the American people reasonably expected to happen
when the Secure Fence Act was passed and signed into law last year.

But the Hutchison amendment has the real potential to
essentially gut the Secure Fence Act.

Senator Hutchison and others who supported her amendment did
vote for the Secure Fence Act. They may sincerely support
border security and may have good motives for wanting to give
DHS discretion. But this amendment creates a loophole that
means the double-layer fence mandated by the Secure Fence Act
is no longer mandated and final decisions are left to DHS on
if and where the fence is built.

As a staffer for Rep. Duncan Hunter said, quoted in the WorldNet
Daily article, "This new requirement no longer mandates that
fencing be double-layered."

The DHS bill has not been finalized.

If for some reason you missed my first message to you
about this breaking issue, you can still take action by
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