Thread: Jim DeMint Wants to Finish Mexican Border Fence as Part of..

Jim DeMint Wants to Finish Mexican Border Fence as Part of FinReg Bill

by Mike Lillis 5/5/10 6:15 PM

The South Carolina Republican announced today that he’s hoping to amend the finance reform bill working its way (slowly) across the Senate floor with a provision requiring the Department of Homeland Security to erect 700 miles of border fence within a year. A similar amendment, also offered by DeMint, passed the Senate last summer as part of a DHS funding bill, but Democrats stripped the language out before sending the legislation on to the White House.

“Americans have demanded a real fence to combat the very real problems of illegal immigration that have led to human trafficking, drug trafficking, kidnapping and violence on our border,â€

Let's put our efforts with our comments, and write our own Senators to support Sen. DeMint! We have to specify that this be double fencing with a road in-between to accomdate Border Patrol vehicles as called for under the Secure Fence Act of 2006!