Kelly and Myers find an issue to disagree on
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterThe first major policy difference between third district Republican congressional candidates Jack Kelly and Chris Myers emerged today over how the United States should secure its border with Mexico.
Kelly said that Myers’s contention that “building solid walls” along the border “is not the answer,” which was published in a Philadelphia Inquirer story that ran today, puts him in line with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Myers said that high-tech solutions, like cameras and sensors, are a better solution.
“I could not disagree with Chris Myers more about building a fence at the US-Mexican border. While I agree that technology plays a part in securing our border, we must build a physical fence as well,” said Kelly in a press release. Chris is someone that Republicans simply can’t trust. Whether it’s donating to liberal Democrats, missing primary elections, or not supporting building a fence – Chris Myers is wrong.”
Myers’s stance is in line with his employer, Lockheed Martin, which submitted bids to the Department of Homeland Security to build a “virtual border fence” in 2006. The company advocates a high-tech border security network.
Expect that to be another barb Kelly will use against Myers, who he has accused of acting as a lobbyist for the defense industry.
In response, the Myers campaign brought up the job Kelly had with the South Jersey Transportation Authority, which they have characterized as a patronage position that he’s unqualified for.
“Jack Kelly is about as qualified to speak about immigration policy as he was to work as the Airport Business Manager at the Atlantic City Airport,” said Myers spokesman Chris Russell. “Chris Myers believes spending billions on an unsightly fence that illegals can dig right under, and that covers less than a third of the 2,000 mile long US-Mexican border isn’t the answer to stopping illegal immigration. Instead, Chris Myers wants more agents patrolling the border, an end to failed catch and release policies that perpetuate the illegal immigrant problem, a commitment to enforce our current laws, and to apply advanced technologies that monitor the entire border from the ground and the air."
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Neither party can be truly trusted when it comes to that political bombshell called the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INVASION. Currently, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is expected to try to add an amnesty for illegal-alien agricultural workers to the Iraq supplemental spending bill when that bill is marked up today in the Senate Appropriations Committee. At this point, the details of the amnesty are unknown. There is some chance she may try to slip it through by giving one or two million illegal ag workers a 5-year amnesty as opposed to a permanent legalization. They say nothing about whose going to pay for their childrens education, there free health care and all those who end up in the prison system Learn the disturbing costs at (www.eagleforum.org/sources) However, that still allows them to work and live here while further sinking roots. The open-borders champions hope that the longer illegal aliens stay the more difficult it will ever be to deny them U.S. citizenship.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is using strong-arm tactics against anti-illegal-immigration Democrats in an effort to kill the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) for the year. North Carolina Democrat Heath Shuler's SAVE Act is an incredible threat to the unscrupulous businesses of America who insist on illegal labor to hold down their labor costs. Most business owners are not like that, but the outlaw businesses have the ear of Speaker Pelosi.
Madam anti-sovereignty Pelosi and her team are intimidating Democrats to make sure they do not sign the Discharge Petition that would bring the SAVE Act to the floor for a vote. They know it would easily pass if there is a vote.
Call your Democratic representaive and tell them to say 'NO' to any kind of AMNESTY. Call them and demand the SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) Toll free at ( 202-224-3121 )