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Court Says Border Fence May Proceed
Jun 23rd 2008 6:30PM
Filed Under:eBush Administration, Breaking News, Immigration, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court gave illegal immigration opponents and the Bush administration a key victory today when it rejected a case brought by environmental groups challenging the construction of a section of the new border fence with Mexico. The case challenged the government's right to waive environmental requirements in the construction of a two-mile stretch of the fence near Naco, Arizona. Environmental groups said that the fence jeopardized endangered species that cross the border in the area to mate.Last year, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff utilized his power to waive the regulations, under an authorization in the Real ID Act of 2005, to allow the construction of the fence to continue on its rapid pace. About 331 miles of fencing have been constructed in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, including the disputed two-mile section. Chertoff has used the waiver authority a total of three times, including once to waive seven separate federal regulations for a section of the fence near San Diego, CA. The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement praising the decision.
"As fence construction proceeds, the department will continue to be a good steward of the environment, and consult with appropriate state, local, and tribal officials."
Critics of the department and the border fence said that the decision and the fence would ultimately have no impact on the illegal immigration problem. "I am extremely disappointed in the court's decision," said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. "Without a comprehensive plan, this fence is just another quick fix."
But the American people do not support a comprehensive approach to immigration reform, as the failure of the 2006 Senate immigration compromise demonstrated. Americans support enforcement of the border first, and may be willing to revisit the nation's immigration system after some control over the flow of illegal immigrants has been established. Today's decision by the Court will be embraced by a majority of the population not only as upholding the law as passed by Congress, but as a common sense approach to a growing problem.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 1)A Woman9:19PMJun 23rd 2008
I'm with dharc....
Secure the borders and quit throwing our border agents in jail for doing their jobs !!! The American people are all sick of your lies. FREE THOSE BORDER AGENTS ...how stupid do you think we all are????
danielistical1:03AMJun 24th 2008
Some walls are built to keep people out,like the great wall of China. Some walls are built to keep people in like the Berlin wall. What kind of wall will we be building?
M A Andrews1:19AMJun 24th 2008
Third World Overpopulation is sending human waves
of illegal aliens into every First World country.
But Mexico is by far the worst offender,it is
doing everything it can to create an Illegal
Mexican Nation within the borders of the USA!!
Changing its laws to promote dual citizenship,
aiding,abetting and even urging its people to
illegally emigrate to the USA calling them"Heroes
who will think Mexico first into the 7th generation"
operating 47 consulates as a shadow government that
issue I.D.cards to circumvent U.S.Law.
Finish the fence and prosecute criminal employers
and Politicians who advocate for Illegal Aliens!!
numbersusa
alipac
saveourstate
grassfire
minuteman civil defence
american patrol
John Allen11:50AMJun 24th 2008
Anyone who votes for John McCain is doing a couple of things: helping to destroy the country economically, increasing the almost totalitarian iron grip the Republican party has on this nation--it's getting scary--and renouncing the TRUE message of Christ, which is being perverted by nutjob evangelicals like Dobson. Vote Obama or everyone's screwed, including the people who want to be.
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iynaroc021:58PMJun 24th 2008
McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.
iynaroc022:09PMJun 24th 2008
HONESTY ISSUE:
Will the real John McCain please stand up. For people that want to meet the real john McCain, please read these two articles: Corruption, Flip-Flop and Lies
http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin040501.shtml
Now that's the McCain, the reformer we know.
AGE ISSUE:
Data just released show America is behind most industrialized nations when it comes to life expectancy. That is why we need universal healthcare like Obama is advocating. Just food for thought:
- For average white American male, life expectancy is 72 years and John McCain is already 72 years old, so he might kick the bucket any time now
- For average black American male, the life expectancy is 70 years and Barack Obama is only 46 years old.
bonbon4:01PMJun 24th 2008
yep let's close the barn door, now that all the animals are out.
evryone has all the answers, yet no one has a solution.
roberto4:44PMJun 24th 2008
look around the only friend you have is mexico.the rest of the world whant to kill you.think
Jim5:09PMJun 24th 2008
WHAT OBAMA DOESN'T WANT VOTERS TO KNOW ABOUT HIS UNCLE
WRIGHT..http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
Wrights Own Words..
Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in West Africa during the 19th Century — when the trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade was at its zenith. Islam has as many manifestations as Christianity and Judaism.
Rev Wright teacher of Islam was a DR Fazlur Rahman..
Once the election was underway, Barack Hussein Obama was very careful to promote himself as a Christian and the keystone of his Christian identity was Trinity Church, a Church shaped around a former Muslim
whose Divinity School Masters Degree was on Islam and who used the Church to preach hatred for America and support for terrorism. That man of course is Jeremiah Wright.
With the revelations that Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and received his Masters degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School on Islam in Africa– Obama’s affiliation with Wright’s Trinity Church takes on a whole new meaning.
When Obama attended Wright’s Trinity Church, was he really attending a Church or a Mosque that Wright had built with a Christian facade over it.
Wright has admitted to incorporating ideas from Black Muslims into Trinity. He himself is a former Muslim who promotes an Islam centered view of America and Israel as demon states. There are Synagogues that
are actually Churches dedicated to targeting Jews. Muslims have been covertly imitating some of this. There is a Jews for Allah and Muslims have been trained to lead religious discussions with
Christians by equating Christianity with Islam
, proclaiming that they too believe in Jesus. If there are Messianic Christian synagogues, why
not a Prophetic Christian mosque?
Either way, conspiracy theories aside, the Church that Obama was attending had more in common with a Mosque than with a conventional Church. It was led by a former Muslim whose specialty was and is Islam. A former Muslim who hates America and Israel and who preaches ideas that are basically Black Muslim ideas. So Obama’s claim that Trinity Church normalizes him as a Christian goes out the window,
because Trinity Church is no mainstream Christian Church. It’s as close as anyone can come to attending a Mosque without actually attending a Mosque.
Consider Obama’s “I’m not a Muslim” defense reverted
back to square one. Or is that Mosque one.
Also Obama’s Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence.
copy of manifesto
...http://www.bizzyblog.com/wp-images/TUCChamasColumn072207.jpg
This is how Obama learned to lie so well..
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
here is how taqiyya is used in america..
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9730604_ITM
Go back and review al of Obama's rallies and debates, and you waitness a highly skilled taqiyya-tactican
in each and every one...
Jim5:26PMJun 24th 2008
WHAT OBAMA DOESN'T WANT VOTERS TO KNOW ABOUT HIS UNCLE
WRIGHT..http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
Wrights Own Words..
Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in West Africa during the 19th Century — when the trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade was at its zenith. Islam has as many manifestations as Christianity and Judaism.
Rev Wright teacher of Islam was a DR Fazlur Rahman..
Once the election was underway, Barack Hussein Obama was very careful to promote himself as a Christian and the keystone of his Christian identity was Trinity Church, a Church shaped around a former Muslim
whose Divinity School Masters Degree was on Islam and who used the Church to preach hatred for America and support for terrorism. That man of course is Jeremiah Wright.
With the revelations that Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and received his Masters degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School on Islam in Africa– Obama’s affiliation with Wright’s Trinity Church takes on a whole new meaning.
When Obama attended Wright’s Trinity Church, was he really attending a Church or a Mosque that Wright had built with a Christian facade over it.
Wright has admitted to incorporating ideas from Black Muslims into Trinity. He himself is a former Muslim who promotes an Islam centered view of America and Israel as demon states. There are Synagogues that
are actually Churches dedicated to targeting Jews. Muslims have been covertly imitating some of this. There is a Jews for Allah and Muslims have been trained to lead religious discussions with
Christians by equating Christianity with Islam
, proclaiming that they too believe in Jesus. If there are Messianic Christian synagogues, why
not a Prophetic Christian mosque?
Either way, conspiracy theories aside, the Church that Obama was attending had more in common with a Mosque than with a conventional Church. It was led by a former Muslim whose specialty was and is Islam. A former Muslim who hates America and Israel and who preaches ideas that are basically Black Muslim ideas. So Obama’s claim that Trinity Church normalizes him as a Christian goes out the window,
because Trinity Church is no mainstream Christian Church. It’s as close as anyone can come to attending a Mosque without actually attending a Mosque.
Consider Obama’s “I’m not a Muslim” defense reverted
back to square one. Or is that Mosque one.
Also Obama’s Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence.
copy of manifesto
...http://www.bizzyblog.com/wp-images/TUCChamasColumn072207.jpg
This is how Obama learned to lie so well..
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
here is how taqiyya is used in america..
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9730604_ITM
Go back and review al of Obama's rallies and debates, and you waitness a highly skilled taqiyya-tactican
in each and every one...
jack winger11:50PMJun 24th 2008
in congress we have the jerks of the century. they are lazy,worthless and ruining our country. why do we elect such morons? both reps and demos.
never have i seen such a bunch.
our congressman buck mckeon is at the top of the list as lazy.
Lady Liberty1:12AMJun 25th 2008
Dear Hillary supporters,
THE FRAUD STOPS HERE
Hussein Obama is the most UNQUALIFIED candidate in history. The Obama team have been caught messing with votes in caucuses, double votes, childrens votes, dead people votes, ballot boxes dissapearing, late reporting etc. The DNC did nothing to stop it.
The DNC betrayed the American voters - DENIED all 50 states EQUAL RIGHTS under the constitution. The DNC gave all undecided votes to Obama. The DNC split the Florida votes, stole votes from Hillary and gave them to Obama. The DNC forced the delegates to declare themselves for Obama before the Convention. Well, my dear people, the fraud stops here. We can REJECT Obama forever. We can kick the anti-American racist Obamas to the curb.
The media frat boys of CNN, NBC, MSNBS, FOX have hurled insults at our brilliant, intelligent, strong candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, just because she is a woman running for PRESIDENT. No MALE presidential candidate has ever been attacked so viciously before. But they did it to a woman, because this is the media culture - until we stop it. The media anointed Hussein Obama, the racist bigot junior rookie from Chicago and gave him a free pass. The media can not get away with their vile behaviour. There is a price to pay. This will now backfire on them.
We Hillary supporters don't have to "fall in line" for the DNC. We Hillary supporters cast 18,000,000 votes for Hillary. Hillary PROVED she can win the electoral college in November, but the DNC boys pushed her out. They are former presidential wannabe losers : Dean, Kennedy, Kerry, Richardson, Edwards, Gore, Dukakis, McGovern, and DNC groopie Nancy Pelosi.
We can teach the DNC a lesson they will never forget.
We the people will be voting Sen. McCain, who is an honorable Ameican Hero, who has been very respectful to Hillary. McCain hears us, he respects us, he wants good for America. Obama is a closet muslim with terrorist friends. There is no contest.
WE THE PEOPLE VOTE HILLARY OR MCCAIN.
NEVER OBAMA.
Lady Liberty3:19PMJun 27th 2008
We can teach the DNC a lesson they will never forget.
We the people will be voting Sen. McCain, who is an honorable Ameican Hero, who has been very respectful to Hillary. McCain hears us, he respects us, he wants good for America. Obama is a closet muslim with terrorist friends. There is no contest.
WE THE PEOPLE VOTE HILLARY OR MCCAIN.
NEVER OBAMA.
BeatTheChip7:58PMJun 27th 2008
"But the American people do not support a comprehensive approach to immigration reform, as the failure of the 2006 Senate immigration compromise demonstrated. "
Let not the editorial blogging of MARK IMPOMENI make blind minded strokes of hogwash over the American people and what they do and do not support at AOL. " The people" were insufficiently boondoggled into accepting the hitchhiking parasite of a law we now know at The Real ID Act of 2005. Chertoff is the tool in the Bush administrations high minded plans for widespread and horrendous amounts of human rights violations. The people of the US have been IGNORED by this junta. IMPOMENI is a lousy reporter for making such a disgusting, loose, inaccurate and generalized account of the US people's role in the border wall issue.
Mark Impomeni10:32PMJun 27th 2008
BeatTheChip,
So, the Senate immigration compromise bill did NOT fail because of the outrage and outcry from Americans fed up with illegal immigration. Rather, it died because George Bush, despite sponsoring the legislation, wanted it to fail all along.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Sincerely,
Mark Impomeni
TRUDY9:09PMJun 29th 2008
MUSLIM / ISLAM'S CREED IS DUTY TIL DEATH.....ONCE ONE, ALWAYS ONE. HUSSEIN, I MEAN OBAMA, WHATEVER HE CLAIMS TO BE THIS WEEK (RELIGOUSLY) IS SLICK BUT NOT SO SLICK AS TO THOSE OF US WHO UNDERSTAND MUSLIM. HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED AND HE WAIVERS & CONTRADICTS HIMSELF ON EVERY SINGLE ISSUE THAT COMES BEFORE HIM.
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dharc8:36PMJun 23rd 2008
Pelozi,Harry Reid,Benny Thompson, Diane Feinstine,and all the other idiots are walking a fine line. The more Americans are murdered,the more 3 year old girls are raped by third world scum the angrier the people are getting.Some people are at the point of buying food or filling the gas tank, Why don't you idiots do your stinking job? American taxpayers want the illegal scum from Mexico stopped at the border. Hey idiots don't you get it? SECURE THE BORDER.