Here's some additional information on the fence that was supposedly begun in 2006. Michelle Malkin has posted a blog called 'FINO: fence in name only' that lays out a lot of good detail on the fence issue. Some important points to note:
- there is no current funding for the fence
- Congress estimates it will cost $3.2 million per mile
- the $1.2 billion allocated to build 370 miles of fence last fall are being used for other things
- the Bush administration has backed off on their original commitment to build at least 850 miles of fence, and is now saying 370 miles is sufficient
- the Bush administration is also favoring watered-down measures that will ultimately only monitor/block 950 miles of the 1,950 miles of the US/Mexico border (and only 370 of those miles will have a fence)
This could be a good place to start the immigration 'reform'...
There's my two cents.
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