Supreme Court news: A win for the border fence, still waiting for Heller
SCOTUSblog covered the latest round of Supreme Court opinions live. Lots of links to today’s decisions here. Still waiting for a ruling in the highly anticipated Second Amendment case, D.C. v. Heller.
There was some good news today for the border. The high court rejected an attempt by environmentalists to obstruct the border fence in Naco, Ariz. Alas, construction still continues at a snail’s pace.
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“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
–George Carlin
Compared to the pace of the construction of the border fence, the snail is on speed…
Couldnt we just have Chuck Norris patrol the border…i mean, he’s on the set of his reality show “Walker, Texas Ranger”
LOL
Seriously….lets just get the fence built and get the illegals back on the other side of it.
Can’t get those illegals to work any faster.
txvet2 Now THAT is funny.
Perhaps Sheriff Joe could be in charge of building the border fence, I’ll bet the fence would be built in no time.
instead of turning all of the difficult issues over to SCOTUS..
How about if out servants in Congress and the executive branch do the job we’re paying them for and legislate instead of …OKKK vegetate (I had to say it :-))…and take our $$$ to boot. They have LOTS of time off …on our $$$$ sooo they could be doing the job that Mexico’s leaders won’t do….
..our servants
Not talking about the fence along the southern border of Mexico I see. Our tax dollars will make sure it is built before our fence is.
bush nor any of the “elected representatives” in DC have any intention of building even 25% of the approved fencing. ICE drags its feet, purposely picking areas for the fence they know will cause problems knowing delays and challenges will ensue. WHy not just build it 10 feet from the GD border line? Then if there are legitimate concerns for keeping it open in a few areas, simply put ina gate that has monitoring so anyone coming thourgh is easily spotted. 95% effective is a heck of alot better than the wide open border we have today where the ICE agents simply play hide and seek with the invaders due to crippling engagement rules our PC gov’t places on them.
My guess is they anticiapte a merger in the next decade so why waste $ on the fence. Just make it look like you are trying to do your job to alleviate suspicion and keep the masses ignorant. I am not a conspriracy nut, but something so simple has been made out to be a bigger task than defeating Japan. Something is rotten in Denmark.
For the record: there are 1,989 miles separating Mexico and the US, 5,525 miles along the US/Canada border and 95,000 miles of shoreline. When you finish fencing everything off we’ll literally be the animals in the freaking zoo.
The other place famous for its border wall was East Germany…
Too bad they couldn’t erect motion sensing “METAL STORM” turrets every 100 yards. I guarantee border crossings would all but be eliminated.
Rogue Cheddar #11 said:
I’d settle for the old Ma Deuce.
#13. Indeed. At once all illegal activity would cease. Of course, it could be problematic when immigration stops becoming the problem and things start to resemble the aforementioned East German scenario. A fence, depending on your perspective, can be used to keep people out or in.
AW Geez, I don’t know what metal storm or ma deuce means. Help me out please.
Ma Deuce
Metal Storm is an electronically fired gun that has an incrediblely high rate of fire.
Ma Deuce is the .50 cal machinegun from the 1920’s that is still in use seemingly everywhere today and for the forseeable future.
wowzer !! Major threat.
As I have stated before … take all of the construction units of the military and put them on the border for field exercises … each unit has a responsibility to build a section of fence during their time there … the fence would be done in record time and they get good hands on training they can’t get any other way …
Hadrians Wall nothing more!
# 15 JHSH Thank you for the links:
Metal Storm is awesome!
What did the snail say when he went for a ride on the turtle?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
It’s all relative
I’d like someone, anyone in the federal government to recognize the border problem for the national security issue it really is and then take action.
They treat it as a distraction to running for reelection and only address it to posture for the media or special interest groups on either side.
Then as soon as people are distracted by the economy or (more likely) some celebrity nitwit, it goes to the back burner.
Get the damn thing built!
But it would collapse the first time a big wind came along.
I wonder if the gov. has people holding stop and slow signs or detour signs for the illegals trying to come across while building the fence. Wouldn’t want any of them to get hurt.
If it does not involve the transfer of wealth from America to Iraq or trade benefits for Communist China, Bush does not want to hear about it. Especially when it involves his chosen people, illegal Mexicans. Bush does not know illegal Mexicans have invented their own guest worker program. It requires their enrolment in Federal prisons.
It’s a shame this story hasn’t gotten any notice here.
I wish our LAPD and California Highway Patrol had bumper stickers on all their carrs: You Report, we deport.
khan,
With you. BHO will set precedence by signing a federal bill for abortion thereby usurping state rights to legislate. Then, bye-bye 2nd Amendment.
This has me singing a song by the Foreman Folk Heros….. Send Em Back… LOL
It’s amazing that SCOTUS has to decide an issue that has been a “non-issue” for thousands of years, with countries…guarding one’s borders. We have become so sensitive to the “touchy-feely, feel good” crowd, that one’s own natural instincts are called into question. It reminds me of a story I recently read about the homeowner who confronted the burglar in his house, chased him out and down the street, tackled him and held him for police, then got arrested for assault. We’ve been invaded and people cheer, rushing to protect them.
Egypt and Mexico will have their fences long before this issue can be flushed down the drain here in the US.
A fence here is racist and baaaaaaaaaaad remember? We cannot protect our sovereignty as that would be showing us for the “cowboys” we are.
Ahhhhhh, if only Americans were the cowboys the left thinks they are life would be so much nicer.
OT: Score one for the ACLU and jihadists everywhere
A brief one-page order from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington directed military officials to either “release or transfer Parhat, or to expeditiously hold a new [military] tribunal.”
He isn’t sprung yet, but being a Chinese citizen attending an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan and fighting for the Taleban does not an unlawful enemy combatant make, apparently.
I’m glad to see a legislator who hasn’t forgotten what government should (and shouldn’t) be.
I agree, but what I’d like to know is how does the Federal government justify such a bill? What happened to our right to “life, liberty, etc…”, as opposed to the nonexistent “right to kill a child”? I’m not a Constitutional expert, but I thought the Fed’s powers were limited to declaring war and regulating matters of interstate commerce?
John Ansell said: “You report, we deport”
Now that’s clever!
Watch for the Heller decision at the very last minute before SCOTUS lawmakers on go on vacation, thus avoiding the crapstorm.
We have borders?
Yes, we have borders, but only at the checkpoints. A mere formality to show the false impression that the U.S. is actually doing something and to let the illegals know where the benefits start. Only legal people go through the checkpoints. The illegal people start a mile or 2 to either side.
I like that idea - but makes too much sense for the Federal government to put into action.
The probable decision in Wash. Dc vs. Heller will probably look like the following: The Washington Dc gun ban is struck down, but the states can decide what is an “arm” for legal sale.
What do you guys think? This decision could be out anytime now….
Right now their motto is “You Report, We decide”
Lack of manpower is not what’s slowing this down, at least in some cases. there’s a lot of negotiating with landowners going on.
The people I know are not happy with the damages they’ve been offered by ACE for their house, which will be fenced off on the Mexican side of the fence, and they also think they’re getting cheated on what they’ve been offered on the eight acres of land that was condemned for the fence.
I wouldn’t want to live in a country where it was ok to plop a construction battalion down on someone’s property and start building without due process of eminent domain having taken place.
Seriously, it’s very disturbing that anyone could think even for a moment that that’s acceptable procedure in the US.
Sadly, our esteemed Supreme Court (the one who just protected child rapists and would-be rapists everywhere in this country), has already spoken on this, too, not long ago. I am losing all faith in the justice system of this country.