Hostile reception for pro-fence congressmen in Brownsville

[Gman]

Source: AP via the Houston Chronicle

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
© 2008 The Associated Press

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — One of Congress' strongest border fence proponents received a hostile reception Monday in the city that has become the epicenter of fence opposition.

Boos and hisses emanated from the audience for a congressional field hearing when Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado dismissed residents' concerns that the effort to build 670 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border by year's end would damage the environment and destroy a centuries-old bond between residents on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Late in the five-hour hearing, Tancredo returned to a comment made earlier by panelist Betty Perez, a rancher and local activist. Perez said, "It really isn't a border to most of us who live down here."

Tancredo dismissed Perez's remarks as a "multiculturalist attitude toward borders."

As jeers rose, Tancredo added, "I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city."

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While we're all busy with a presidential primary, the residents of the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas are fighting away at border fence. They're lawsuits are summarily thrown out of court with little or no hearings. Recently Chertoff waived three dozen laws to expedite the building of the fence.

[ladywnch]

1. tancredo is a horse's ass and an embarrassment to the state.

thank god he will be gone after his latest term is up.

[pop goes the weasel]

2. Tancredo showed himself for the racist he is

The fact that it is the Bush administration that is pushing that damned fence demonstrates that he is no Texan. No real Texan would ever support the building of fences between Texas and Mexico. We are siblings who've had spats and ugliness but are still kin after all.

[nomorenomore08]

3. Ah, Tom Tancredo. America's very own Jorg Haider/Jean-Marie Le Pen.

You folks in Colorado must be so proud. :sarcasm:

[benh57]

4. Yet all these texans will vote McCain

Cognitive dissonance.

[Javaman]

5. Not this Texan, thank you very much. nt

[KamaAina]

6. "I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city."

thereby placing Brownsville on the Mexican side.

Anyone ever see Tancredo and David Dukkke in the same place at the same time? :shrug: