The Senate today passed an emergency spending amendment to the Immigration Reform Bill, allocating nearly $2 billion to fund a 370 mile fence and 461 miles of vehicle barriers along the US/Mexico border. WashPost. I wonder how many homes, jobs and infrastructure that money could provide for the people on the other side of that fence?
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california taxpayers pay $10.5 billion in taxes each year to illegal immigrants, so $2 billion really isn't that much.
It sounds like an immpressive amount of money, but once you understand the scale of this problem, you realize it is the right thing to do (and long overdue).
Just finished listening to a story on WBUR's OnPoint about the federal deficit, which just further confirmed my concerns. Congress needs to stop approving all these emergency spending expidentures and include the things it actually wants to spend money on in a balanced budget that also works to pay off the debt, while rolling back tax cuts on the wealthy and big business and improving social programs for the rest of us.
a "do nothing" congress that spends the most money in the history of the United States. Go figure...
on fencing and troops, nonetheless...
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