Schumer's bad faith opposition to border security

Jeff Dunitz:
Just as he has done with practically everything else since Donald Trump was inaugurated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is making his decisions based on politics rather than what’s good for the United States. In recent weeks he has insisted he will not budge, he will not allow more than $1.3 for border protection with none of it for a barrier along the southern border. He told the press the money was, “for border security, NOT a concrete wall or increases in detention beds or [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents.” He added that his party” would not agree to more border security funding.”

It’s strange that Schumer objects to the wall, because in 2006– before he was the Senate majority leader before Donald Trump was president, Chuck Schumer voted in favor of the Secure Fence Act

Eighty senators in total voted for the secure fence act, twenty-six out of the forty-four Democrats voted in favor of the bill (one, Ted Kennedy did not vote). Twelve years later some of those Democratic Senators are still serving in the upper body, and one Democratic Party member of the house who voted in favor of the secure fence act is now in the Senate....
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Here’s the bottom line. Back in 2006, the people of the U.S. were promised a two-layered high-tech Mexican border fence, Thanks to the Barack Obama administration 95% of the barrier wasn’t built.

But Chuck Schumer says the wall is unnecessary and a waste of money because it won’t work. That is a bogus claim especially if you look at Israel. The wall/fence system built along the eastern side of Judea and Samaria has almost eliminated the suicide bombings coming from the “West Bank.”

There’s also a wall along the Israel/Egypt border. That barrier’s purpose was similar to the wall President Trump wants to build along America’s southern border. Israel’s southern border was erected to prevent illegal immigrants from Africa, crossing over the formerly open border into Israel.
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Schumer and Democrats oppose the wall because it would work.   The Democrat party has been losing its base and wants to restock its dependency class with migrants who would be counted by the census and thus give them more seats in Congress.

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