Battle-axes of the Border

Battle-axes of the Border updated & bumped

Fence?

Here’s the ad. Old battle-axes. It makes no sense.

We don’t need no stinkin’ fence. It won’t work, first of all. We need to put a lot of technology and manpower on the border. We need to fund the investigative units that target employers, fine them and make them pay for hiring illegal immigrants.
These two things
alone will take a lot of work. Then we need to talk to our southern neighbors and do something about them exporting their unemployed.

But this is stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Still, the bill took a decidedly conservative turn last night with the adoption of amendments that would at once declare English the national language and designate English the “common language” of the United States. The Senate also blocked the bill’s newly legalized undocumented workers from receiving the earned-income tax credit, while denying legalized undocumented workers any Social Security benefits they may have earned after overstaying their visa. Senators also undid a provision that would keep information from visa applications confidential. (snip) The defeat of the family-unification amendments may have preserved the coalition, but they could also raise pressure on some Democrats to vote against the bill. … Immigrant Measure Survives Challenges

Like I said, stupid.

UPDATE: By a vote of 33-63, the Senate failed to limit debate on the immigration bill. They needed 60 votes. So on it continues.

A fragile bipartisan compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants suffered a setback Thursday when it failed a test vote, leaving its prospects uncertain. Still, the measure — a top priority for President Bush that’s under attack from the right and left — got a reprieve when Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would give it more time before yanking the bill and moving on to other matters. “We need to complete this marathon,” Reid said.