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 was willing to shut down the government if funding for the border wall with Mexico was still in the continuing funding resolution. Yet in 2006– before he was the leader of the senate opposition, and 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). Eleven 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. They include;
| OH | Sen. Sherrod Brown (House) |
| DE | Sen. Thomas Carper |
| CA | Sen. Dianne Feinstein |
| FL | Sen. Bill Nelson |
| NY | Sen. Chuck Schumer |
| MI | Sen. Debbie Stabenow |
Other notable Democrats who supported the bill in the Senate included Senator Joe Biden, Senator Hillary Clinton, and Senator Barack Obama.
So what’s the difference between then and now? There are only two I could find.
The first is that the 2006 proposal was for a double layered fence with barbed-wire on top, and room for a security vehicle to patrol between the layers (see below) The 2017 proposal is for a wall; 30 feet tall, that will meet requirements for aesthetics, anti-climbing, and resistance to tampering or damage.
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