If we can get the Democrats in the majority in at least the House of Representatives this November, it won’t be funded at all

I wouldn’t be sao confident about this. What wallfence has been built was built on Clinton’s watch. With full understanding that it would result in increased deaths.

Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) – “It’s a statement for the election. That’s all.”

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) tried to amend the Senate bill to give the Department of Homeland Security more flexibility in the placement of the barriers, but House leaders resisted any changes to the House-passed bill. In the end, she settled for a letter from GOP leaders promising to revisit the issue when Congress returns after the elections. An effort by Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) to moderate the bill’s definition of “operational control” was also dropped. The bill defines operational control as preventing all unlawful entries. Martinez suggested dropping the word “all.”

We all know why Martinez want the word “all” dropped, it is meant for his Cuban base because they have the wet foot, dry foot policy. And not dropping the “all” would mean, it would override that policy and every Cuban could be deported.

OPERATIONAL CONTROL DEFINED. — In this section, the term “operational control” means the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.

This is all subject to interpretation and it is up to the cops and the migra. And not that people have lost their writ of habeas corpus, good luck if they hear from them. Since Cubans traditionally vote for the Rethugs, looks like they are about to lose their only Hispanic base.

And Garza too: There were provisions through and through in the treaty clauses after the Mexican War, and in the laws that followed, guaranteeing protection for Spanish as a language for offices, schools, hospitals, government documents, ballots and contracts. That’s right, I was just reading that myself. Sort of changes the whole argument, doesn’t it.

So the next time some English-only jerk tries to yell at you and whine that you should speak only English, just give him a dose of history. Son los Anglos idiotas que no entienden las leyes y principios de su propio pais. It’s we, then, who need to remind them.

Funny how so many things seemed to fall right into place for the Republicans (and, frankly, a goodly number of the DLC neocons on the Democratic side), just in time for the November elections.

This BS border fence is also truly hilarious, a political stunt so nakedly stupid that almost anyone with a dollop of good sense should be able to see through it. Anybody’s who’s actually spent time along southern Arizona, California along the Mojave, or western Texas knows how utterly impossible it is to fence this region off– the moon landing is easier and less costly than this, it’s just not an area that you can fence. The native American tribes in Arizona have also put up a total veto on the fence– they have sovereign nation status there and they’re not taking it. And the existing fences south of San Diego and Texas have merely inspired one of the most sophisticated and effective tunnel and inexpensive waterway transportation networks in the Western Hemisphere. Maybe that’s why, even as Congress members were approving the border fence, they refused to fund it.

If we can get the Democrats in the majority in at least the House of Representatives this November, it won’t be funded at all. There are only a very few Republicans that we should consider as worthy of support– John McCain and maybe Mitt Romney being among them. But otherwise, the Republicans have truly shown themselves to be the enemies of the Latino people. Until they change their policies and attitudes, they deserve to be vigorously opposed by us and defeated in the ballot box.