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.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

House OKs changes for fence on border

Sean Holstege
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 AM
Photo by Chris Hawley/The Arizona Republic

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would grant Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff full discretion to decide what kind of fence to build on the border and where to build it.

The bill, part of a major government-spending proposal, cleared the Senate on Tuesday night and will steer $1.2 billion toward fence construction.

But the measure has rankled border-security supporters because it eliminates provisions of a 2006 fence law that stipulated nearly 700 miles of double fence be built in specific places on the 1,950-mile U.S.-Mexican border. When enacted, it also will prohibit fence construction until the Homeland Security Department has met with Interior Department and Agriculture Department secretaries, local governments, Indian tribes and property owners to reduce the impact of the fencing.

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