Senate Flip-Flops, Authorizes Fence - August 3, 2006

Faced with what could be an avalanche of support for anti-illegal immigrant politicians in November's election, the Senate reversed its earlier decision to stop southern border fence building, agreeing 94-3 to an amendment to the Defense Department appropriations bill providing $1.83 billion for 370 miles of triple-layered fencing and 461 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexican border.

It is important to note three obstacles we still face in doing what is right to seal off the border as soon as possible:

• The Senate immigration bill authorizes construction of 370 miles of fencing and several more miles of vehicle barriers but does not provide funding for them. The House has authorized but not funded 700 miles of fencing
  
• Timing in funding and actually constructing the fence could face many delays because of threats from pseudo-environmentalists, the Border Fence Project and Minuteman Fence is focusing most of its efforts on fencing on private land adjacent to the border
  
• 370 miles of fencing is about 1600 miles short of the entire border and 330 miles short of the "critical 700 miles" considered to be crossable where inundations occur daily
  

The Border Fence Project is now working on low budget cameras that might be just as effective in sealing off all roads that lead inland, and even the smallest donations will greatly assist our efforts to get uploadable video to the Internet soon, to prove the magnitude of the problem.

We invite you to visit BorderFenceProject.com as your help and donations are greatly appreciated in our drive to help meet our goals. Thank you for reading and being a part of our unprecedented mission.

Sincerely,

Jim Wood

NoInvaders.Org President

http://www.NoInvaders.Org

http://www.BorderFenceProject.com