Border fence bill simply a grand political deception

Posted on: September 26th, 2006
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The move came amid polls showing that Bush’s party may lose one or both chambers of Congress in the elections.

“White House spin doctors are painting it differently, but it’s becoming increasingly clear the Republican Party, forced to choose between courting Hispanic voters or the xenophobic right in the race for the Nov. 7 congressional elections, has opted for the latter.

Last week, the Republican leadership in the Senate decided to shun President Bush’s previous proposal for a comprehensive immigration reform that was to contemplate both border controls and a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. Instead, the Senate leadership decided to put to a vote a much narrower bill that mirrors an insane proposal previously approved by the House to erect a 700-mile border fence along the border with Mexico.”

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