US lawmakers proposes to fence US-Mexican border 5th November, 2005
Two US lawmakers have introduced a bill which calls for fencing the entire 3,200-km-long US-Mexican border to keep off illegal immigrants, US media reported Friday.
The bill, co-sponsored by Congressman Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Congressman Virgil Goode, proposes to create a two-layer reinforced fence with lighting and sensors from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, a 100-yard (meter) border zone to the north of the barriers and 25 new ports of entry.
The cost of the project is estimated at 8 billion US dollars.
Ed. Money well spent, the price of not doing anything is and will continue to be far greater...
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They also propose to buttign thousands of new border patrol officers, immigration investigators, attorneys and immigration judges to beef up immigration control along the porous US-Mexican border.
At present, only the westernmost 22-kilometer stretch of the border is lined with parallel fencing.
There is secure fencing at other vulnerable points, but long stretches of the border are protected only by patchy barbed wire or nothing at all.
However, some other lawmakers are skeptical that a new fence will effectively stop illegal immigration.
Ed. Especially those lawmakers making money from the cheap labour and cheap votes...
Congressman Jeff Flake said that such a fence will not work for half of the 400,000 immigrants who enter the country every year and overstay their visas.
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Currently, it is unclear whether the bill will receive enough support to pbutt in both chambers of the US Congress.
Ed. Then they have failed to uphold the consbreastution and defend the people of the United States - as they swore to do - they should be thrown out of office...
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