News From the Border

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.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Bill would ease fence rules

Call for local input on border barrier meets resistance

The Associated Press

Published: 12.18.2007

WASHINGTON - A massive spending bill Congress is expected to pass this week provides at least $1.2 billion for construction of a border fence and border security equipment, but eases mandates on where fencing should be built, how it should look and how much to build.

The pending bill, which the House passed Monday night, would tweak a 2006 law mandating 700 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border that the Homeland Security Department has been racing to fulfill. The Senate was expected to consider the bill Wednesday.

A provision sponsored by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, would modify the law that requires at least two layers of fencing and specifically spelled out where that fencing should be built in Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona.

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