Thread: Senate Dems push border security bill. Update PASSED

Now the Dems will go home and crow to their districts how tough they are on border security.

I hope the Repubs try to pass the SAVE ACT & CLEAR ACT when they return in Sept. then we will see how much the Dems.care about protecting citizens instead of Illegal Aliens.

Statement by Secretary Napolitano on Passage of Southwest Border Bill in the U.S. Senate

Release Date: August 5, 2010

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

"I commend the Senate for passing the Southwest Border bill to add important, permanent resources to continue bolstering security on our Southwest border. These assets are critical to bringing additional capabilities to crack down on transnational criminal organizations and reduce the illicit trafficking of people, drugs, currency and weapons. Over the past eighteen months, this Administration has dedicated unprecedented personnel, technology, and resources to the border and we will continue to take decisive action to disrupt criminal organizations and the networks they exploit. I encourage the House to act quickly on this bill to strengthen our historic border security efforts."

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Now the Dems will go home and crow to their districts how tough they are on border security.

I hope the Repubs try to pass the SAVE ACT & CLEAR ACT when they return in Sept. then we will see how much the Dems.care about protecting citizens instead of Illegal Aliens.

Yep. They've "gotten tough" before, and then backed off because they couldn't take the criticism on part of the pro-illegal cooks. I'm waiting for the government to be consistently tough. Even if that does happen, a second amnesty won't do.

WE ACCEPT THIS. BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT AMERICANS WILL APPROVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS. NO, WE HAVE TO SECURE THE BORDER 100% AND DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS. WE DO NOT SUPPORT AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS. JUST ENFORCE CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS AND ILLEGALS WILL LEAVE. WE SUPPORT SB 1070 ACROSS THIS NATION.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Statement by Secretary Napolitano on Passage of Southwest Border Bill in the U.S. Senate

Release Date: August 5, 2010

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

"I commend the Senate for passing the Southwest Border bill to add important, permanent resources to continue bolstering security on our Southwest border. These assets are critical to bringing additional capabilities to crack down on transnational criminal organizations and reduce the illicit trafficking of people, drugs, currency and weapons. Over the past eighteen months, this Administration has dedicated unprecedented personnel, technology, and resources to the border and we will continue to take decisive action to disrupt criminal organizations and the networks they exploit. I encourage the House to act quickly on this bill to strengthen our historic border security efforts."

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This page was last reviewed/modified on August 5, 2010.

http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1281061024196.shtm

"I commend the Senate for passing the Southwest Border bill to add important, permanent resources"

Permanent? Almost everything in this is "to remain available until September 30, 2012." How stupid is this woman? She's obviously NOT SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER!

But did they reeeeeeead the Bill.


Kathyet

Senate Version

S.3721
Title: A bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for border security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 8/5/2010) Cosponsors (13)
Related Bills: H.R.5875
Latest Major Action: 8/5/2010 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

No Text yet.

The text of S.3721 has not yet been received from GPO
Bills are generally sent to the Library of Congress from the Government Printing Office a day or two after they are introduced on the floor of the House or Senate. Delays can occur when there are a large number of bills to prepare or when a very large bill has to be printed.

Voice Vote????

No Text????

Where's the Transparency?

Devil's in the details. What's hiding in the Senate version that's going to be left in, when it goes to committee? Senate Recess Scheduled for Aug. 9 - Sept. 10, 2010

Dixie

"The main stumbling block has been how to pay for the increased spending."

funny how the feds can always find money when it comes to spending it for other countries, but to protect our own, they just scratch their heads and act like they just got stupid. Until another natural disaster hits another foreign country and what do you know, we have money to send them. Well illegal immigration is a natural disaster, and it's in this country, not some other country.

I agree with other posters this sounds like more posturing in order to please those voters who aren't informed enough to see through this, yet another sham! Unarmed drones -- are you kidding me? What for? How about land mines, barbed wire and armed and ready to shoot on site border guards

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Originally Posted by Rockfish

"Now our attention must turn to comprehensive reform

Not one vote should go to CIR even if they secure the border. Besides, they'll lie and cheat to try and prove that it is secure. Throwing money at the problem never works. What WILL work here is not only feet on the ground, but those feet must carry arms! This is war folks, nothing less.

[quote:as5lheos]The money would be used for such purposes as adding 1,500 new enforcement agents . . .

Border Patrol Agents are ALL armed.

It provides an additional $196 million for the Justice Department to bolster its forces of U.S. marshals, and FBI, DEA and ATF agents along the border.

And they are all armed.[/quote:as5lheos]
Thanks for that, JohnDoe2, let's just hope they're not just armed with BB guns. A 50-cal and some hand grenades should help. Even some tanks. Eventually the drug cartels are something that will be engaged.