In 2013, Dem Senators Voted To Give $46 Billion To Secure Border, Build Barrier. 2006 Was Even Bigger
BY KARA PENDLETON
And it was a Democrat who spilled the beans on their hypocrisy.
The government shutdown over the border wall funding battle has seen a number of excuses from Democrats. One, however, has been cost for the wall. When Kentucky’s Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth appeared on The Hill’s “Rising” on Friday, he admitted the amount requested is chump change compared to other amounts the Democrats have been willing to pay for border security.
Oopsie! Since he seemed to fumble his way through the interview, can we trust what he said about that? Yes, we can!
The Daily Wire reported that there has been more than one time in the past when the Democrats approved higher amounts of funding for border security.
In 2006 that amount was $50 billion over a period of 25 years. It was approved by 26 Senate Democrats.
The Boston Globe reported that the funds were to cover a secure barrier along the southern border. Then-Sens. Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama all voted for the the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
The Globe goes on to note that Obama praised the bill at the time, saying, “The bill before us will certainly do some good.”
He also spoke of how it would create “better fences and better security along our borders.”
The then-future president also praised the fact that it would “help stem some of the tide of illegal immigration in this country.” But that is not the only example of Democratic hypocrisy on border wall spending.
In 2013, all 54 Senate Democrats voted to approve $46 billion for border security. That funding included spending for 700 miles of fencing, wrote The Daily Wire.
An Associated Press report explained that the 700 miles of fencing included an additional 350 miles of new fencing. The funding was given in part to “ensure that 90 percent of would-be crossers are caught or turned back.”
That was then. Now, those same Democrats who were for border security are against it, because they don’t like President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, the elected heads of border states who know the issue best, like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, know how important border security is.
Why are government employees’ jobs and paychecks being held hostage by the Democrats?
It certainly looks like nothing more than partisan politics at the expense of innocent Americans.
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Closing the Borders to protect citizens of America, just a thought
If basic national security is not a valid reason for “shutting down” the federal government, then what is?
To be sure, if Thomas Jefferson were alive today and penning the Declaration of Independence, the federal government’s refusal to carry out the simple wishes of the governed that the border be secured would be among the first and most egregious in his new Bill of Particulars against this government and its long train of abuses and usurpations.
American citizens (those that care about the future of our country) would be wise to remember that the federal government does not exist to provide jobs to federal workers. It exists to serve the American people. And no such service is greater than the basic enforcement of laws and protection of our borders.
The truth is, Mrs. Pelosi House Speaker and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the crazy leftist Democrats are the ones shutting down the government, to keep it from securing the border. The current strategy of the Democrat congress and their leadership is using federal workers as human shields in this indefensible iniquity.
The Facts: “The only thing that is immoral is the politicians to do nothing and continue to allow more innocent people to be so horribly victimized.”
The Facts: The lawlessness at the border is a real “humanitarian and security crisis.” It is a “crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.”
According to Democrats: Thousands of undocumented foreigners storming the border and throwing rocks at Border Patrol; millions of aliens living in the United States illegally; criminal aliens violently attacking, raping and murdering Americans … it’s all a “manufactured crisis.”
According to Democrats: “The women and children at the border are not a security threat, they are a humanitarian challenge.” No mention, of course, of all the unattached, able-bodied men at the border.
The fact is that Democrats are so dishonestly mischaracterizes the truth of the border situation.
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