Illegal Immigration Watch: Session’s Amendment Passes – To Build 370 Miles of Triple Layer Fence Along Mexican Border

A member of Mexican immigration group Beta checks the border wall between Mexico and the United States during a patrol in Tijuana, Mexico May 6, 2006. The U.S. Border Patrol said on Wednesday it had arrested 724,613 undocumented migrants crossing the 3,200-km (2,000-mile) border from Mexico since October 1 last year, a rise of 6 percent from the same period a year earlier. The increase comes as U.S. lawmakers debate a proposal by President George W. Bush offering millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, and as Hispanic activists staged protests and a work stoppage in cities nationwide.

ASSociated Press: Senate OKs Border Fence, Mulls Citizenship

The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.

Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for conservatives seeking to place their stamp on the contentious measure.

The Senate vote on Senator Session’s amendment is here.

A ittle ray of hope before the House-Senate conference negotiations on the final bill.

“Ultimately we all understand where this bill is going to be written. It’s going to be written in the conference committee between the House and the Senate,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

House Republicans remained unyielding in their opposition to legalization.

“Thinly veiled attempts to promote amnesty cannot be tolerated,” said Rep. Tom Price of Georgia. “While America is a nation of immigrants, we are also a nation of laws, and rewarding those who break our laws not only dishonors the hard work of those who came here legally but does nothing to fix our current situation.”

Stay tuned……

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Blogosphere:

Hugh Hewitt: Security First

Michelle Malkin: THE PRICE OF A FENCE 

Should be an interesting scene in Washington in about an hour. The illegal alien lobby says it’ll have 100,000 amnesty-demanding activists pounding the pavement. I can’t make it there tonight, but hope to have a few eyewitness reports. Wonder if the MSM will EVER cover these radicalized protests in a fair and balanced way…

Who will be building the fence? Reader Daniel G. imagines the news story:

Illegal Immigrants Hired to Build Fence To Keep Illegal Immigrants Out

“They’ll work for cheap and get the job done right,” Pres. Bush said.

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