A 370 Mile Fence

I bet the Republican politicians in Washington think that this is good enough to calm their conservative base. If they really wanted to impress everyone, they would've ok'd a fence for the whole southern border.

This is from ABC News:

The Senate agreed to give millions of illegal immigrants a shot at U.S. citizenship and backed construction of 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday. Prospects for legislation clearing Congress were clouded by a withering attack against President Bush by a prominent House Republican.

"Regardless of what the president says, what he is proposing is amnesty," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., the lawmaker who would lead House negotiators in any attempt to draft a compromise immigration bill later this year.

Bush stood his ground. "The Republican Party needs to lead on the issue of immigration," he told an audience of GOP donors, "…America can be a lawful society and a welcoming society and we don't have to choose between the two."

The blast by Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, came on the day the White House dispatched top presidential aide Karl Rove to ease the concerns of rebellious House Republicans and GOP senators clashed on the Senate floor.

If the Republicans in the Senate want to remain in office, they had better take that guest worker plan off of the table. Everyone knows that it is a form of amnesty and I doubt if they can change the minds of the people who want the current laws on the books enforced.