Comments on: Senator DeMint on the Border Fence http://www.bloggernews.net/114637 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:07:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: byron http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-265021 byron Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:24:00 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-265021 Southern senators get together because they are nothing more than racist redneck idiots who found something to ride on during troubled times in the republican party. I mean what else are they going to campaign on? Iraq? Gays? Spending? Economy? Southern senators get together because they are nothing more than racist redneck idiots who found something to ride on during troubled times in the republican party. I mean what else are they going to campaign on? Iraq? Gays? Spending? Economy?

]]> By: stillastruggle http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-264665 stillastruggle Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:55:56 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-264665 And the beat goes on...I used to rally & heed the battlecry of the likes of Senator Demint ,the Rush Limbaughs and his ilks.It took me a little while and lots of time and discernment to see who they are and what they espouse. And those were more than 20 years of wasted political chicanery I've embraced in their camp. I am glad, though quite late---that I see now the demagogues,the proud and the political opportunists in the once mighty GOP,but now parading its epitah. They can always try to make immigration as the boogeyman but these political opportunists know deep in their hearts that they are ,again,clanging noisy cymbals. And the beat goes on…I used to rally & heed the battlecry of the likes of Senator Demint ,the Rush Limbaughs and his ilks.It took me a little while and lots of time and discernment to see who they are and what they espouse. And those were more than 20 years of wasted political chicanery I’ve embraced in their camp.

I am glad, though quite late—that I see now the demagogues,the proud and the political opportunists in the once mighty GOP,but now parading its epitah.

They can always try to make immigration as the boogeyman but these political opportunists know deep in their hearts that they are ,again,clanging noisy cymbals.

]]> By: S Nicol http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-264619 S Nicol Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:43:37 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-264619 One more note. If you visit the "grassroots" website that DeMint promotes and scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see that it is paid for by DeMint's reelection campaign. One more note. If you visit the “grassroots” website that DeMint promotes and scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see that it is paid for by DeMint’s reelection campaign.

]]> By: S Nicol http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-264618 S Nicol Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:40:29 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-264618 This is nothing more than the basest politics. Senator DeMint sees the immigrant boogeyman as a national security issue that avoids the mention of Iraq, and that he can ride to reelection. The call for campaign contributions for his reelection bid is particularly telling. It is also absurd to call a website that is being promoted by a Senator "grassroots". If DeMint would go to the trouble of reading the Congressional Research Service's report “Border Security: Barriers Along the U.S. International Border,” updated June 5, 2007, he would see that they found that the San Diego wall had "no discernible impact" on the number of undocumented immigrants who enter the US. If he bothered to listed to the Border Patrol he would learn that border walls only slow a crosser down by 5 minutes. The Border Patrol is having its greatest success in reducing the flow of immigrants in places where there have never been walls. According to Border Patrol statictics in the Rio Grande Valley sector crossings were down by 34% in fiscal 2007; in the Del Rio sector they were down by 46%. Neither Texas sector has ever had a wall. In contrast, San Diego, which has parallel walls, saw a 7% increase in crossings. DeMint should take a stab at actually representing the interests of the American people, instead of inventing absurd labels like "radical amnesty agenda." It is utterly meaningless, but like building walls on the border it sounds good. We need leadership on this issue, not sound bites. This is nothing more than the basest politics. Senator DeMint sees the immigrant boogeyman as a national security issue that avoids the mention of Iraq, and that he can ride to reelection. The call for campaign contributions for his reelection bid is particularly telling. It is also absurd to call a website that is being promoted by a Senator “grassroots”.

If DeMint would go to the trouble of reading the Congressional Research Service’s report “Border Security: Barriers Along the U.S. International Border,” updated June 5, 2007, he would see that they found that the San Diego wall had “no discernible impact” on the number of undocumented immigrants who enter the US. If he bothered to listed to the Border Patrol he would learn that border walls only slow a crosser down by 5 minutes. The Border Patrol is having its greatest success in reducing the flow of immigrants in places where there have never been walls. According to Border Patrol statictics in the Rio Grande Valley sector crossings were down by 34% in fiscal 2007; in the Del Rio sector they were down by 46%. Neither Texas sector has ever had a wall. In contrast, San Diego, which has parallel walls, saw a 7% increase in crossings.

DeMint should take a stab at actually representing the interests of the American people, instead of inventing absurd labels like “radical amnesty agenda.” It is utterly meaningless, but like building walls on the border it sounds good. We need leadership on this issue, not sound bites.

]]> By: stillastruggle http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-263163 stillastruggle Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:06:54 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114637#comment-263163 Hi, I am always curious. Why is it there is "synergy "among southern senators particularly Demint, Vitter ,Session,Dole et al as far as immigration ? I don't see this "synergy" on the other geographical locations of the country. Why the south ?? I know the south has a sordid history in the past. Am I sensing the same sense of "exclusion"? Hi,

I am always curious. Why is it there is “synergy “among southern senators particularly Demint, Vitter ,Session,Dole et al as far as immigration ?

I don’t see this “synergy” on the other geographical locations of the country.

Why the south ?? I know the south has a sordid history in the past. Am I sensing the same sense of “exclusion”?

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