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The Fence

September 14th, 2006 | by Jersey McJones |

There’s an old expression - Good fences make good neighbors.

There’s another old expression - Any idiot can get around a fence.

The House just voted on passage of H.R. 6061, the “Secure Fence Act of 2006,” (Think “Clear Skies Act” here… familiar oxymoron?) and It passed 283 to 138, pending reconsideration. Basically, all the bill does is extend existing fences here and there along popular migratory routes and doles out some dough for surveillance technology and what-not. To hear the debate on the floor, however, you’d think they were putting up the Great Wall of China.

The bill’s sponsor list featured the Usual Gang of Mexican-Bashing Idiots, from Peter King, New York’s answer to Tom Tancredo, to Tancredo himself, Colorado’s answer to Paul Simon’s masterpiece, “One Trick Pony.”. Dana Rohrabacher, the natural filler of the void since Bob “B1″ Dornan “retired,” was in there along with everyone’s favorite True Red Republican, Katherine Harris. Now, none of those names should surprise us. Between the four of those loonies there’s barely a sane moment. But the leadership? Boehner and Blunt? Well, it just goes to show - no matter how stupid and ludicrous, let alone hateful and racist, the idea, the GOP can get behind it for it’s base - especially in an election year.

So, should this thing come to pass, alien workers will have to endure yet even more misery in their quest to make a buck off the satisfaction of Big Agro and Republican Voters’ lawns. And remember, the harder it is for these folks to get back and forth, the more they’ll just stay once they’re forth. After the 1986 Immigration “Reform,” ala that phoniest of phonies, Reagan, with a Republican majority in the Senate, illegal immigration went through the roof. Although morons (re: Republicans) would say that it was the “amnesty” that created the increase, in reality it had more to do with the ratcheting up of interdiction and enforcement. Besides, most “legalized” immigrants are not pro-”illegal” immigrant anyway. Americans have always been that way. The prior group to immigrate always resents the next. It’s an unfortunate facet of Social Evolution.

But NOOO… Instead of spending the money on bolstering the INS to allow for more legal and temporary worker immigration, instead of realistically increasing quotas from Mexico (our “good” neighbor, after all), instead of allowing for good people to enter leaving only the bad to sneak in, instead of treating these migrants like human beings, instead of facing the fact that employers will continue to hire these folks and continue to grease the political wheels to get away with it no matter what we do, the stupid Republicans want to put up a fence. A fence.

Fuckin’ Futile Fence.

Rabbling Rightwing Republicans.

They never fail to fail.

JMJ

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