How Congress Prevented Border Fence Law's Implementation

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 11/12/2015 | IBD Editorials

[aimhigh]

It's true that in 2006, the Republican-controlled House and a large bipartisan majority in the Senate passed, and President Bush signed, the Secure Fence Act, requiring 700 additional miles of double chain-link and barbed-wire fences with lights and camera poles.

But in 2007, the Homeland Security Department complained of being, er, fenced in, arguing that different types of terrain required different barriers.

So Cruz's predecessor, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, authored an amendment that DHS would not be required "to install fencing . .. if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location."

[SharpRightTurn]

“Kay Bailey Hutchison”

I’m glad the trash was swept away.

[Buckeye McFrog]

And they wonder why establishment politicians are mired in the single-digits.

[imardmd1]

Stop fighting the alligators! There are too many of them!

Build the dike! Block the surging inflow of mental and moral defecation!

Drain the swamp!

[Paine in the Neck]

Known locally as Kay Barely Republican.

[PhiloBedo]

But they can’t stop illegal executive amnesty!

[PGalt]

Gang of 535 in kabuki theater called CONgre$$. ZERO representation. ZERO action. Lots of talk.

Words and deeds BUMP!

[HiJinx]

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[Dante3]

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