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This Week's Report:

Hutchison Kills the Border Fence

The more things change, the more they stay the same, so the saying goes. Nothing could be more apropos than that cliché when thinking about 2007 ending and the 2008 beginning. With a monumental Presidential race about to heat up that will have major implications for the future of the nation and our direction, one issue continues to simmer. It is slowly being brought to the boiling point, the proverbial point of no return: that issue is immigration.

The future of the United States and the issue of immigration are intricately connected, bounded together in a nightmarish reality, primarily because our so-called leaders in Austin and Washington D.C. continue to sidetrack the issue and literally fiddle while Rome burns.

Few people dare to confront the immigration issue realistically and honestly.  The title of Cassandra is hung around the neck of anybody who speaks out.  And it's almost appropriate. Cassandra was the mythical princess that was granted the gift of prophecy, but with a caveat: no one would believe her predictions.

Our nation is in dire straights, regardless of what any politician might say about how peachy and wonderful things are going in the United States. We still live in the greatest country on earth, but our elected leaders have sold us out, as the Peter Morrison Report has consistently shown.

In 2007, a major battle patriots thought they had won took a tragic turn for the worse. As we now enter 2008, the reality of a significant sellout is becoming alarming clear. The sellout is in regards to the Secure Fence Act (SFA) of 2006, and the erosion of that immigration reform bill in the US Congress.

Enacted in 2006, the SFA was supposed to fund more than 700 miles of high-grade fence to be erected along high illegal immigration and drug trafficking areas along the United States and Mexico border (primarily in California and Texas).  The act also authorizes new technology in the war to secure our borders, including the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, sensors and even satellites in a bid to ensure our borders would no longer be molested to the degree they have been.

Unfortunately, the positive steps authorized by that act have not been enacted.  The year 2007 saw little effort to implement any of the provisions of the SFA.  The lone superpower in the world managed to build only five miles of fence. Instead, the act became an instrument of fooling the public into thinking something was getting done when actually nothing changed.

Well, it turns out the SFA was just our elected leaders great attempt at pacifying those of us who want our laws enforced, as they never really intended on building that 700-mile fence.

A recent bill signed by President Bush has confirmed that the SFA was nothing more than a beautifully crafted ruse to pull the wool over immigration reformers' eyes.  The $555 billion spending bill that he signed pretty much stalls the SFA for good.

And it was one of our own senators, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who included some words in a voice vote that pretty much killed the fence.

She said, "Nothing in this paragraph shall require the Secretary of Homeland Security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location."

Thanks to Hutchinson, the SFA has been effectively neutralized and made impotent.

But we should have seen this coming. Michelle Malkin, a stalwart in the war for a sane immigration policy, wrote, "On the very day the bill was signed, open-borders politicians were already moving to water it down. Texas Republican Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn pushed for "flexibility to choose other options instead of fencing, if needed."

Worse, that 700 mile fence to protect the United States from illegal invaders and drugs has been shrunk to roughly 370 miles. And as Malkin reports, "The first deadline (of the SFA) -- a May 30, 2007 requirement for installation of an "interlocking surveillance camera system" along the border in California and Arizona -- passed unmet."

So as 2007 becomes 2008, government malfeasance and duplicitous actions remain tried and true and as American as apple pie. Our elected leaders might talk a good game, but, when no one is looking or paying attention, they work hard to reverse the major gains made by our side in the war for our nation.

Besides trying to physically build the fence ourselves, brick by brick, what can you do to help ensure this important front on the war to secure the United States' border is accomplished?

Call and e-mail Hutchison and Cornyn and let them know you're fed up. E-mail them both a simple letter that outlines your disgust with their continued stalling in the building of this important monument to sanity and security.

More importantly, realize that if this fence is ever constructed - and mind you five miles have been built - it will be because of citizens like you who made our so-called leaders do what they do not want to do.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Fence_Act

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061026-1.html

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MichelleMalkin/2007/12/19/

the_incredible_disappearing_border_fence

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