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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Committee members take quick trip to border

BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER
Aug 2, 2006

After concluding its first field hearing ever held in Yuma, members of the Armed Services Committee took a tour of the border.

Within 30 minutes of leaving Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, where the hearing was held, committee chairman Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Rep. Thelma Drake, R-Va., found themselves standing in front of a seven-mile stretch of fence in the desert east of San Luis, Ariz.

Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Jeffrey Calhoun of Border Patrol's Yuma sector explained to the two representatives that the fence, which is being built by National Guardsmen, is made out of excess landing mats from the Vietnam War era once used to construct airstrips in remote areas.

"Some of this stuff is more than 30 years old and has become available to us," Calhoun said.

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