Fencing Would Assist Border Agents
By Amanda Carpenter
Thursday, July 19, 2007
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Aman ... der_agents
While Department of Homeland Security is working toward erecting a 370-mile fence along the southern border by 2008, there has been an increase in assaults made on U.S. Border Patrol Agents by illegal aliens.

In the four day span between July 8 and July 12, 11 assaults were committed against Border Patrol Agents, including two shootings and one “vehicular assault.â€