The Wall Wedge

[Nbadan]

June 11, 2006, 12:41AM
Dems mock border wall
Platform takes a swipe at GOP support for plan to stop illegal immigration
By CLAY ROBISON and KRISTEN MACK
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

FORT WORTH

- Striking a markedly different posture from Republicans, the Texas Democratic Party on Saturday endorsed an immigration policy encouraging assimilation over wall-building.

The party, many of whose voters, candidates and officeholders are Hispanic, has traditionally been supportive of immigration. But a new platform adopted by delegates to the party's state convention included language specifically striking back at GOP-led attempts to tighten up the border with Mexico without helping immigrants become citizens.

Texas Democrats also continued to poke fun at the proposed border wall, which Texas Republicans have endorsed.

"Before we start building a fence, all of us need to know two things: how much it's going to cost and then who's going to build it," said state Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, whose father was born in Spain and mother emigrated from Mexico.

austin Chronicle

No one in their right mind believes that a fence, no matter how high or how deep, will stop illegal immigrants from entering the U.S.. However, come November, Republicans can go to their cons uents and say that they were for working hard for more secure borders and curbing illegal immigration while the democrats were not.

The Demos should instead just let them build their stupid fence. This is a loser.

[spurster]

Fehrenbach in the SA Express-News made a good point one or two weeks ago. A fence doesn't stop anyone unless you are prepared to shoot anyone who goes over, and he wasn't willing to shoot. Unless we want some kind of a Berlin wall.

[xrayzebra]

And your plan being? Just open everything up and let them come and go
as they please?

Oh, and most deer fences are built to keep deer in, not out.