So the Senate passed a bill today that will build a 370 foot fence along the U.S./Mexico border.
The House has already approved a bill that would build a 700 foot fence.
Are we serious?
I think it was a congressman who said, “A 10 foot fence will only make the man with the 11 foot ladder very rich.”
Eric suggested that maybe it will be a white picket fence to help people understand the Amerian dream and increase property values along the border.
Some stretches of the 2,000-mile border are already marked by fencing, most notably a 14-mile segment dividing San Diego from Tijuana. The Senate measure calls for triple-layered fencing but does not specify a location.
No Republican voted against the fence measure, which attracted wide support from Democrats. The 15 Democrats who voted against it (as did the independent James Jeffords of Vermont) were Daniel Akaka and Daniel K. Inouye, both of Hawaii; Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico; Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, both of Washington; Christopher Dodd and Joseph I. Lieberman, both of Connecticut; Richard J. Durbin and Barack Obama, both of Illinois; Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin; Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts; Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, both of New Jersey; Jack Reed of Rhode Island, and Paul Sarbanes of Maryland.
No word yet on how much it will cost – or how tall the ladders will need to be to let people climb over.
Here’s a picture of our current fence apparently (doesn’t look too menacing):
BTW – I did all the work finding contact pages and info, so you don’t have to.
