The Bush administration has completed only 64.05 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border in California, Arizona and New Mexico, according to an aerial survey conducted in late September by Arizona-based private group American Border Patrol.
And only two miles comply with the 2006 Secure Fence Act's requirement for two-tiered fencing, the survey found.
Conducted as part of the ABP's "Operation Beef" (Border Enforcement Evaluation First), the survey was conducted in a Cessna TU-206 using a Sony high-definition video camera and Canon EOS-1 Dx 17 megapixel camera with a 100-400 mm lens, according to ABP President Glenn Spencer.
Video and stills were linked to a given geographical location using a Garmin 296 GPS Map system.
Mr. Spencer said the video and still data were analyzed to locate each type of fencing along the border, noting that most of the border's existing fencing consists of barbed wire stock fence and that large areas have no fencing of any sort.
He said a total of 704 miles were surveyed.
— Jerry Seper, national reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (2)
So, how's this going to be affected by the bill just signed into law that's supposed to gut the fence act? Sounds like there wasn't much being done beforehand, and there won't be much done afterward.
Posted by D. | January 7, 2008 10:39 PM
>"So, how's this going to be affected by the bill just signed into law that's supposed to gut the fence act? Sounds like there wasn't much being done beforehand, and there won't be much done afterward."
Exactly. I am outraged by Hutchison's amendment and the sleazy way that Chertoff, Bush, and the US COngress have pushed their agenda.
It's one thing to balk at doing something one doesn't want to do, but to lie about is is beneath contempt.
Posted by rktkr | January 8, 2008 2:01 PM