Senator Trent Lott on Migrants, Border Fences, and Goats

Earlier this week (here), we posted an entry about anti-Latino racism influencing immigration reform.  Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire posted a “Quote of the Day” earlier this week from a supporter of the Senate bill that speaks for itself:

“If the answer is ‘build a fence’ I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence. “Now people are at least as smart as goats. Maybe not as agile. Build a fence. We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple times they quit trying to jump it.”

— Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), quoted by the Biloxi Sun Herald, on the solution to illegal immigration.

KJ