Thread: Plans for March -- bird's eye view, inspection of border fen

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Plans for March -- bird's eye view, inspection of border fence
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 2/20/2008 6:00:00 AM

Interested in knowing how much of the congressionally mandated border fence has been completed along the border separating the U.S. from Mexico? Colin Hanna hopes to share that information soon with his fellow citizens.

Border fence advocate Colin Hanna says he wants the American people to know how much progress -- or lack of progress -- the government is making on fulfilling the mandate of The Secure Fence Act of 2006. He wants to personally inspect the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. That act mandates the federal government erect more than 700 miles of double-layer fencing along specified sections of the 1,951-mile-long border. Some of the fencing must be completed by the end of the year.

Hanna, president of WeNeedaFence.com, thinks the American people have a right to know how the project is progressing. So at the end of March he plans to spend five days in a light plane inspecting the entire border -- "every inch" of it, he says, from Brownsville, Texas, to Imperial Beach, California.

"Then I'll report to the American people on where there is physical infrastructure that's been there for years, and where new fencing has been built," he promises, adding that he also plans to "take a good look at the new fencing that's been built to see if, in fact, it complies with the terms of the Secure Fence Act of 2006."

Hanna says the more than 700 miles originally approved that year were for specific areas of high trafficking of both illegal aliens and illegal narcotics. He believes that additional fencing might need to be erected in the future.

"It makes perfectly good sense to erect the fence in places where there have been a large number of illegal immigrants coming across," he explains. "Will that be enough? Will it be necessary to start to fill in the gaps at some point? I would argue probably so."

But Hanna says he would be satisfied for now if the specified fencing is completed.

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