Will next president make building border fence a priority?
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 9/22/2008 12:15:00 PM

Border-fence advocate Colin Hanna says he's now joined the chorus of pessimists who don't believe the Department of Homeland Security will complete the construction of a security fence along the U.S.-Mexico border by the end of the year.

Homeland Security Department (DHS) officials have told The Washington Post that the Bush administration is unlikely to complete the 670 miles of border fence by year's end, as required by Congress. The DHS believes surging construction costs and problems acquiring private land along the border are reasons why the Department had completed only 344 miles of fencing as of August 29.

Hanna of WeNeedAFence.com says the skeptics have been proven correct.

"We have been stalwartly defending the Bush administration's good intentions against any number of skeptics who said they didn't believe that large portions of the fence would ever get built," Hanna explains. "And now we see that, in fact, the skeptics are correct."

Additionally, Hanna does not think a Democratic-controlled Congress or either presidential candidate will push to complete the project next year.

"I think the prospects for doing the single-most effective, most useful step to get a handle on the illegal immigration problem looks like it will be implemented to no more than 50 percent of its already, somewhat-compromised scope," he adds.

After the election, Hanna hopes the American people will, once again, speak out about the problem of illegal immigration and the need for a fence.
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