Sun Sets On Border Fence
Steve Elliott
What you and I do NOW is more important for border security than the presidential elections.
See below. --Steve
3/25/2008
Our research team just got off the phone with one of our key contacts in Rep. Duncan Hunter's office and learned more disturbing news about the border fence.
According to our contact, the fence-gutting provision that was put into the omnibus spending bill just before Christmas also causes the Department of Homeland Security's authority on constructing new border fencing to expire at the end of this year.
In essence, the sun sets on the border fence on December 31 of this year! In fact, our contact tells us the bill language could be interpreted as a prohibition against any fence construction after December 31 of this year.
Here's the exact provision from H.R. 2764:
"In carrying out this section, the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall --
"(i) identify the 370 miles, or other mileage determined by the Secretary, whose authority to determine other mileage shall expire on December 31, 2008, along the southwest border where fencing would be most practical and
effective..."
Think about what this means...
The next President -- whether it be Obama or Clinton or McCain -- will have no clear legal authority to build any of the border fence at all...
We will have a pro-amnesty president who not only doesn't want to build the double-layer fence, he or she legally does not have to!
As a result, this fall's elections could prove less important for border security than what you and I do right now to restore the Secure Fence Act.
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Again, what you and I do NOW could prove more important for border
security than the November elections.
Thank you so much for signing the petition and spreading the word.
Steve Elliott, President
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