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After another flood of grass roots campaigning (read droves of ticked off voters), the Senate backed away from the Immigration Amnesty bill part deux. In a significant, two day turn-around the 2nd Cloture vote failed 46 to 53. That’s a huge swing from 64-35. Today’s vote had 15 Democrats and 38 Republicans voting with the people.
Today, American’s can celebrate that their politicians still fear losing their jobs enough to produce some results. And barring some unforeseen lunacy, the immigration debacle will be dead for the rest of this year’s session. Perhaps, now the government will focus on building that fence they authorized last fall - seeing as they claimed that immigration problem need to be handled right now.

Speaking of the fence, did you hear that some of the fence that was recently built was constructed one to six feet on the Mexican side of the border. Due to Mexican government demands, it must be torn down and rebuilt on US soil. Not only does the flub create another waste of tax payer dollars, it doesn’t really inspire confidence in our border related abilities.

• 2nd Cloture Vote S.1639
• Vehicle barrier built on wrong side of border to be removed