Results for "virtual fence"

Legacy.

Border security you can’t believe in, via the AZ Star:
The flurry of fencing erected along the U.S.-Mexico border in the past three years by the Department of Homeland Security has cost more than expected, a government report shows.
The 140 miles of pedestrian fencing put up under the Secure Border Initiative prior to Oct. 31 of [...]

See, I told you so…
September 14, 2006:
There’s no funding for the fence, which will take years to build if it ever does get funded. There are so many other immediate reforms that could have been adopted this year that would have strengthened immigration enforcement, closed deportation loopholes immediately, and provided true relief at the border. [...]

Fence to Nowhere.

Fence? What fence? Border? What border?

Build the Reinforced Border Obstacle Now!

Invasion. (UPDATE)

Be still my beating heart…

A tale of two fences.

Fence In Name Only, part 9,815.

Yes, they must.

Outsourcing national security?

FINO: Fence in name only.

You’ll be glad to know that not all elected officials are willing to allow a foreign leader to land on American soil and trash our nation’s immigration laws and the character of its citizens.
You won’t hear President Bush stand up to Mexican president Felipe Calderon. As I’ve been reporting, they’ve been quietly hashing out [...]

A Yale professor named “Don’t tase me, bro” as the most memorable phrase of 2007 last week. Here’s the first of my two-part list of obvious and not-so-obvious notable quotables, words, headlines, and phrases of the year. Part I covers January through June. Part II will cover July through December.
January:
“Obscene amenities.” – WaPo troop-basher William [...]

“As it’s currently written, the omnibus language guts the Secure Fence Act almost entirely.”

The nightmare continues.

Yet another GOP Maalox moment: Trent Lott gives reporters his sophisticated analysis of illegal immigration. ““Now people are at least as smart as goats…Maybe not as agile.” Lawd help us.

Fence? What fence?
Last September, I said this about the House vote to approve a 700-mile fence at the southern border:
There’s no funding for the fence, which will take years to build if it ever does get funded. There are so many other immediate reforms that could have been adopted this year that would have [...]

What is it with Reuters cameramen? Via Arutz Sheva:
On Tuesday, a Reuters cameraman was remanded to prison until trial for his part in rock-throwing attacks on security forces in Bil’in, where the separation fence is a constant target of protesters.
The cameraman, Imad Muhammad Intisar Boghnat, was arrested and charged as a result of violent riots [...]

***scroll for updates…hasty declarations…
Update: 10/1012:57am. Sigh. The perils of blogging while traveling. It looks like Mickey was wrong– and I was wrong to pull out a premature I-told-you-so on the pocket veto claim. And this one item won’t be a reason for sitting out the election. Xrlq lays into me. Point taken, though nothing he [...]

Yes, I know. The House voted to approve a 700-mile fence at the southern border. Press release:
Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today issued the following statement after passage of H.R. 6061, Secure Fence Act of 2006. The bill passed 283-138-1 with 131 Democrats voting against the measure.
“Every year, nearly one million illegal [...]

Ted Kennedy opens his mouth…
Allah sez:
Go, watch, laugh, and try to follow his logic when he comes out strongly in favor of a virtual fence — which, if it turns out to be a successful deterrent, logically should result in just as many immigrant deaths as the non-virtual version.

Earlier this month, Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times reported on a document that he says casts doubt on my argument in In Defense of Internment that the evacuation of ethnic Japanese during World War II was based primarily on legitimate military concerns rather than racism and wartime hysteria.
The document was called to Ramsey’s attention [...]

University of North Carolina law professor Eric Muller has been guest-blogging about my new book this week over at The Volokh Conspiracy. He enlisted the aid of his friend and author Greg Robinson in his endeavor. I welcome the debate from the Eric-Greg tag team and others who have actually read the book and are [...]