Thread: Will next president make building border fence a priority?

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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I doubt it.......can't seem to get anyone to move with much speed on anything.

Building a border fence a priority for McCain or Obama? That's a good one!

This is really bugging me, and I need someone to explain.

Ok so how will the current design do anything to stop anyone from crossing the border or digging under it?

And why wont they construct a fence that is more like the ones at max security prisons, Like a double layer fence with razor wire on and in between them with some electrical current, not to kill but to keep climbers off?

Don't get me wrong I don't people to get killed but be deterred enough to stay away.

And what about a design with a deep foundation to prevent tunneling?

It just deems to me that if you want something this important to do its job it needs to be done right.

Anyone get where I'm coming from? Or does our country just not care enough and is just slapping up crap to shut us up?

Originally Posted by 93camaro

This is really bugging me, and I need someone to explain.

Ok so how will the current design do anything to stop anyone from crossing the border or digging under it?

And why wont they construct a fence that is more like the ones at max security prisons, Like a double layer fence with razor wire on and in between them with some electrical current, not to kill but to keep climbers off?

Don't get me wrong I don't people to get killed but be deterred enough to stay away.

And what about a design with a deep foundation to prevent tunneling?

It just deems to me that if you want something this important to do its job it needs to be done right.

Anyone get where I'm coming from? Or does our country just not care enough and is just slapping up crap to shut us up?

The Democrats and Republicans teamed up to gut the border fence legislation that Duncan Hunter authored.

Hunter was the driving force behind a similar fence in the San Diego sector of the border, that seems to be working pretty well

Bill guts border fence requirement: www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59251