Giuliani: It would take '18 months to three years' to get bo
Giuliani: It would take '18 months to three years' to get border under control
Aug 13, 2007
"It would take anywhere from, I'd say, 18 months to three years to complete all this. And once we get control of it, we figure out our long-term (immigration) solution."
That's what Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly about his plan for getting the border with Mexico under control, according to excerpts that the cable news network has sent us.
The interview is set to air Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET on The O'Reilly Factor.
(Update at 7:20 p.m. ET: Tonight, Sen. John McCain is on the Factor, also talking about immigration.)
Giuliani's border plan, according to the excerpts:
Well, first thing you're going to do is you're going to build a fence -- physical and technological. ... The technological fence will alert the Border Patrol that you'll preposition along the border to people coming over. And then the idea is you've got to get the Border Patrol -- you've got to have them prepositioned in the right places. And within a half hour, 45 minutes, you get them there and you stop the people from coming in.
And then you do a border stat program that helps you analyze where people are coming in so that you can predict where they're coming in and have your Border Patrol even better prepositioned. ... And then a tamper-proof I.D. card for every foreigner in this country with biometric data, fingerprints ... so you can be sure who the person is. You record that on entry, you record all exits, which the bill that they put together wasn't going to record. I don't know how you can not record exits. And then we get control of this.
Fox News says Giuliani also talked about the Iraqi government and how much time he would give it to become self-sufficient:
I don't think it's a matter of time. I think it's a matter of seeing what kind of progress you're making. Right now, what I'm interested in is what General Petraeus says when he comes back. ... and he's going to say he needs a little more help. And I would give him a little more help. That's what I would do.
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