[hawkaw]

ummmm ....

Doesn't the government use a bidding process to tender a contract to a private company to first assess and engineer the fence and then another private contractor(s) to build the fence(s)?

In other words the fence will be built by private companies

So I really have no idea what you are talking about.

[The South Texan]

Come on, you know what I am talking about. Private initiative. That is what I am talking about. Wal-Mart didn't have to get FEMA's clearance to get their stuff in the Katrina zone. Private companies taking bids from any government can be pains takingly slow as if the government was doing the work themselves.