Plan for border barrier gains momentum
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Nov. 14, 2005 06:15 AM WASHINGTON - As mayor of Eagle Pass, Chad Foster presides over a thriving Texas border town that takes pride in a robust economy, a spectacular view of the Rio Grande and a warm relationship with Piedras Negras, its municipal neighbor and trading partner across the river in Mexico. Now talk out of Washington has Foster worried.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a powerful California Republican, wants to build a security wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, an old idea with new momentum in the security-minded post-Sept. 11 era.
Hunter envisions a barrier stretching across four states, from the Pacific Coast in California to the Gulf Coast in Texas, following a 1,951-mile route that presumably would edge along Foster's riverside town of 25,000.
Article from azcentral.com
Nov. 14, 2005 06:15 AM WASHINGTON - As mayor of Eagle Pass, Chad Foster presides over a thriving Texas border town that takes pride in a robust economy, a spectacular view of the Rio Grande and a warm relationship with Piedras Negras, its municipal neighbor and trading partner across the river in Mexico. Now talk out of Washington has Foster worried.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a powerful California Republican, wants to build a security wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, an old idea with new momentum in the security-minded post-Sept. 11 era.
Hunter envisions a barrier stretching across four states, from the Pacific Coast in California to the Gulf Coast in Texas, following a 1,951-mile route that presumably would edge along Foster's riverside town of 25,000.
Article from azcentral.com
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