Kagen Watch

You have got to give Dr K credit for planning ahead.
How long before the election?

From the Appleton Post Crescent

Posted November 15, 2007
Kagen to join other lawmakers for U.S.-Mexico border tour
Eight Democrats plan to check out security issues
By Ellyn Ferguson
Post-Crescent Washington bureau

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen and seven other Democrats will head to the U.S.-Mexico border this weekend to see firsthand how America handles border security.

Kagen, of Appleton, leaves for the border on Sunday and returns Tuesday.

He plans to meet with Border Patrol agents in Nogales, Ariz., inspect detainee facilities and observe vehicle and cargo inspections.

Kagen will make a similar tour of Border Patrol facilities along the Rio Grande and in El Paso, Texas.

The first-term lawmaker said the trip would familiarize him with challenges facing agents along the 2,500-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.

Senate efforts to pass a comprehensive bill that included border security and a pathway to legal residency and citizenship for illegal immigrants failed earlier this year.

The House is not expected to vote on immigration-related legislation this year, but the volatile issue of an estimated 12 million people here in the United States illegally could push immigration enforcement bills onto the congressional agenda. For example, Kagen is among 100 Democrats and Republicans backing a bill that would require employers to verify their workers are in the United States legally.

Massachusetts Rep. Niki Tsongas, a Democrat scheduled to make the border trip, knows the power of illegal immigration as a campaign issue.

Tsongas won a closer-than-expected special election in October against a Republican opponent who made illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign.

Wow, you have to go to the last sentence in the article to get the campaign slant.

I'm tough on immigration will be the caption with a picture of Dr K in front of the border fence.

Some other ideas for Dr K on the next election;

Dr K holding a AK 47 with his right hand - "I am tough on immigration". ( you will have to look close on the picture , he will have his fingers crossed behind his back with his left hand).

Dr K with a shovel in his hand filling in a whole that some illegal dug to get into our country. Caption- "I will fill in our problems". What you don't see, there is an out house on the other side of the wall.

Dr K frisking an illegal against a ICE truck. Caption - "We need to clean up immigration". What you don't know is that the guy he is frisking is a ICE employee. He doesn't want him to have a gun to protect himself and hurt an illegal coming across the boarder.

Dr K holding an illegal on the ground face down with hand cuffs behind his back. Caption will be "If you break the law, we will catch you" ( what you don't know is that the guy face down on the ground is a republican congressman from one of the boarder states.

Picture of the eight Dem's standing in front of the fence in Texas. Caption - "we know immigration is important to you". What you don't know is they are on the Mexican side of the fence and are talking to citizens of Mexico and not to the people that elected them.

You know he will use this little trip that by the way we are paying for (our tax dollars) for his upcoming election. When the libs want to pull the wool over their voters eyes, they will do anything to get a vote. Even if it is just for show!