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daveskilt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:12 PM
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Vote in CNN poll: Is building a fence along mexican border good idea?
So far a ridiculous 67% say yes.
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Amy6627 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:13 PM
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1. got a link? n/t
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:14 PM
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2. www.cnn.com
www.cnn.com
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 09:18 PM
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21. Done
Do you think it is a good idea to build a fence along the border with Mexico?

Yes 66% 10102 votes

No 34% 5136 votes
Total: 15238 votes

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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 10:52 PM
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27. 1. Build the fence 2. Jail people hiring illegals.
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flashdebadge Donating Member (235 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:14 PM
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3. I support LEGAL immigration. If it takes a fence to HELP, I'm for it.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:15 PM
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4. Ask Zheng from about 200A.D. when he ruled China...
He had his slave class build a big-ass wall too...
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:27 PM
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8. Maybe George wiill contract the job to the Chinese
Edited on Wed May-17-06 07:50 PM by tocqueville
since Dubai won't take it... And it has been done before during the conquest of the Far West, but it was railroads

the problem is what he is doing to do with all those Chinese immigrants...
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abluelady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:32 PM
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12. I Was Wondering Who Was Going to do the Building
Illegal immigrants is my guess!
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Carla in Ca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:28 PM
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19. lol...you are probably right
Also, as an aside, I'd like to make a comment regarding the * speech from last night. He said all illegals should:

1. not break any laws
2. learn English
3. have a good paying job of several years

My response to that is..... YOU FIRST!!!!!!!
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abluelady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 09:15 PM
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20. And his best comment last night
He didn't want to "scare tactics" to divide the country. LOL Any day now we're going to be on terror alert when his numbers tumble.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 11:08 PM
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30. I happened to pause on Fox news while channel surfing...
a couple of weeks ago and saw the "Terror Alert: High" (or "yellow", can't remember :-) ) and laughed because I didn't realize that was still even used. Only on Fox, I guess.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:18 PM
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5. Is linking to CNN a good idea? Let them die a slow, unattended death.
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Clarkie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:22 PM
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6. Voted Yes.
Something a bit more than a white picket fence I'm invisioning...
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:23 PM
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7. another unscientific poll, it's 47% at max
Polling Data (may 2 2006)

Would you favour or oppose building a wall or a fence all along the border between Mexico and the United States, from Texas to California?

Strongly favour
33%

Somewhat favour
14%

Somewhat oppose
15%

Strongly oppose
33%

Not sure
5%



Source: Hart/McInturff / The Wall Street Journal / NBC News
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,109 American adults, conducted from Apr. 21 to Apr. 24, 2006. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.


so it's practically 50/50

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11739
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Ioo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:28 PM
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9. I voted Yes...
I voted yes
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:28 PM
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10. how long is the Mexican border anyway?
they want to build a 375 mile fence. Guess they can just walk around the end of it.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 10:07 PM
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23. About 2,000 miles.
:shrug:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:29 PM
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11. Notice how the people constantly whining about taxes...
Want to build a giant fence through the desert.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:54 PM
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17. Cuz it ain't the money
It's never been the money. It's the POWER to control who gets the money. I'm sad to see so many think this fence is going to help them.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 10:08 PM
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24. Well, I think they're counting on some cheap labor.
:evilgrin:
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:33 PM
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13. LOL, SoCal native & a fence is a joke
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One Honest Guy Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:38 PM
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14. No problem, as long as the fence in question
is ON the border. I hope they don't try to pull a peace-fence type a deal Sharon pulled on West Bank. Its all good as long as the fence in question doesn't extend 12 miles into Mexican territory.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:45 PM
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15. I am a bit creeped out by the idea of fencing off our borders.
Other governments, in the not so-distant-past, have used border fences to keep people in as well as to keep them out. A bit of tinfoil-hattery? Maybe. But when you think about the other fascist schemes we've watched the criminals now running the government have come up with -- well, it's just another unsettling thing. Right now it's just to keep the Mexicans out, or so they say, and I haven't heard about any plans to build a fence along the Canadian border. Yet. When I see barbed wire and guard towers on the outskirts of Pembina, MN, it might really be time to worry.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 11:19 PM
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31. Actually, I knew a restaurant owner...
who hired an illegal immigrant worker (Mexican or Central American) to wash dishes. He mentioned that the fellow was taking a couple of days off because he was going up to the Canadian border to smuggle his mother into the U.S. I'm guessing that his mom flew to Canada.

Building a wall is O.K., but if a wall is built across the 2,000 mile southern border, people will still find a way in, probably by way of Canada.

If we want to stop terrorism, we need to protect both borders. If we want to reduce illegal immigration, we need to penalize the employers who are drawing them here.
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Xeric Donating Member (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 07:51 PM
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16. another apartheid fence
Because that always works doesn't it?
We have the money to waste on this idiotic idea but not the money for healthcare. Are Americans really this gullible? Who gets rich off the construction? Let me guess.
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 12:31 AM
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33. Who gets rich? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman
WASHINGTON, May 17 — The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors.

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, three of the largest, are among the companies that said they would submit bids within two weeks for a multibillion-dollar federal contract to build what the administration calls a "virtual fence" along the nation's land borders.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2291672
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 08:21 PM
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18. Unless you're going to put one National Guardsman every 25 ft.
along its length, it won't stop anyone.

And it's kind of chilling to think about from our own perspective. Fences keep people IN as well as OUT.

I don't WANT to live in an armed camp.
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Oldenuff Donating Member (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 10:05 PM
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22. Build it high,and build it wide!!

Then put Duuuuhbya,Cheney,Rummy and all the rest of those traitors on the other side.I'll help build it!

On a more important note,I haven't seen much oppostion to the Bio Metric reference that Heir Duuuuhbya proposed.That was the most frightening idea he put forth.Totally unacceptable for any right thinking american to even consider.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 10:12 PM
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25. Heard an interesting quote from a Mexican group spokesman
Edited on Wed May-17-06 10:13 PM by Canuckistanian
This guy was saying that the southern US/Northern Mexico are has always been filled with Spanish speaking peoples and he resented being called a foreigner in his own ancestral land.

He said, "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us".
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 10:28 PM
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26. That's comida para pensó!
:think:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 11:47 PM
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32. Gracias
I think. :shrug: (Spanish isn't one of my languages, but I think I know what you said.)

:hi:
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 08:46 AM
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39. LOL!
Food for thought! Not sure if I said it right anyway. It may mean absolutely nothing in spanish since it is an idiomatic expression:-)

I wish we had a smilie with a sombrero here, like this one:
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 10:58 PM
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28. What kind of drugs are these idiots on??
I hope the fuckers are going to pay to build, maintain and staff such foolishness.
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wildwww2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-17-06 11:08 PM
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29. Would building a fence around CNN stop the propaganda they spew?
Edited on Wed May-17-06 11:12 PM by wildwww2
Probably not but I think it is a good idea. I wonder if 67% of DUers would agree with me? Lets fence in those rightwing idiots and their stupid polls. They really are trying to energize Bu$h`s racist base. A fence along the mexican border. I do not think I have ever heard a more ignorant and unworkable idea in my entire life. Oh, except maybe to invade Iraq for bullcrap reasons with no real plan for success whatsoever.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President
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radio4progressives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 01:34 AM
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37. I hear ya...
i'd love to be able to build an electronic fence around the MSM that feed nothing but lies, and hype crises.

weird. most DU'rs seem to get it when it's someother phony issue, like they seem to get it with the Terry Schievo case - but this one is about "those brown people" ..

never mind that this has been going on for decades and decades by Europeans, Asians, and others from all over the globe - just that they don't come over the southern border, they come over in an airplane instead. Except the Cubans seem to come over by boat, and it's perfectly ok they don't enter the United States with permission/papers and citizenship first.

Amazing hypocrisy.
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 12:37 AM
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34. A fence is assinine!
The Texas border is 1200 miles long, an effiecient fence would cost billions and also wildlife doesn't know about borders and their home ranges will be screwed up, water flows disrupted, etc. Besides only 20% of the "illegals" are Mexican, how do we keep out the Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, various Euros, etc.?
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 01:18 AM
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35. I voted NO
If people really want to stop illegal immigration they need to stop it at the employers. You can build a 100 foot fence that runs the length of the boarder, but as long as there is a reason for people to take such risks to cross the boarder they will.
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radio4progressives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 01:29 AM
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36. I Voted NO!
People enter this country legally with a Visa and will stay if that's what it will take - they will come over the border vis a vis trains planes, trucks, bicycles and automobiles - they will swim, surf or sky dive ... they will find a part of the border under or over the ground somewhere where there is no fucking fence if they are that desperate, and quite obviously millions are that desperate.

i swear to goddess, let the MSM manufacture a phony crises, and watch the stupid american lemmings follow the plot line.
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-18-06 02:04 AM
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38. What's the point of a fence, when you have a really big gate to
allow guest workers in?
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