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Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to direct the Secretary to provide at least two layers of reinforced fencing, installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors extending: (1) from ten miles west of the Tecate, California, port of entry to ten miles east of the Tecate, California, port of entry; (2) from ten miles west of the Calexico, California, port of entry to five miles east of the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry (requiring installation of an interlocking surveillance camera system by May 30, 2007, and fence completion by May 30, 2008); (3) from five miles west of the Columbus, New Mexico, port of entry to ten miles east of El Paso, Texas; (4) from five miles northwest of the Del Rio, Texas, port of entry to five miles southeast of the Eagle Pass, Texas, port of entry; and (5) 15 miles northwest of the Laredo, Texas, port of entry to the Brownsville, Texas, port of entry (requiring fence completion from 15 miles northwest of the Laredo, Texas, port of entry to 15 southeast of the Laredo, Texas, port of entry
Apparently because she called it a fence and Trump calls it a wall.
We have a fence*, Trump wants a more expensive and environmentally disruptive concrete wall.
* The legislation the OP references is the 2006 Secure Fence Act which filled in 45 miles of gaps. Due to Congressional budgets not all 45 miles have been completed. Funding for a short gap (currently a chain link fence) in El Paso was just recently approved and work started last week,
I've always thought if Trump hadn't been so insulting during the announcement, this would have been a non-issue. If Kasich said he wanted to build a wall along the Mexican border, I bet a lot of people would just shrug their shoulders.
Well then, there goes your and Trump's narrative that Democrats have done nothing and are for "open borders".
The Democrats still want amnesty though.
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