WASHINGTON - President Bush signed into law Thursday a broad measure that calls for fencing a third of the 2,100-mile border between the United States and Mexico.
About fucking time. But:
While the measure signed Thursday contains financing, a Homeland Security appropriations bill signed by the president earlier this month also contains $1.2 billion for the fencing. Congress, however, withheld most of that funding pending a report from DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff on exactly how the money will be spent.That report is expected to be politically explosive, so Chertoff isn't issuing it until December, after the election. Chertoff has said he wants to use about $70 million to test a virtual fence on a 28-mile stretch of the border south of Tucson, Ariz., and then adjust the plans depending on how effective it is.
GOD damn Congress (for delaying tactics), and Chertoff (for aiding and abetting Congress), and let's add Mexico to the mix while we're at it:
MEXICO CITY - Mexico, supported by 27 other nations, made a declaration at the Organization of American States slamming U.S. plans to build hundreds of miles (kilometers) of fence on its southern border.
Slam us all you want, but we're going to slam the door shut. And there is NOTHING you can do about it.
