[Earthdweller]

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the fence will cost $3.2 million a mile, Congress voted to hand DHS just $1.2 billion in fiscal year 2007 for construction. DHS needs to use half of it for other purposes besides the fence like technology and roadways. With say half of the 3.2 left what do you get...a little over 150 miles of fence? It's a down payment on 700 miles pal ....and you ain't getting no more now.

[Eagle of Liberty]

The 2006 Act was signed. The fact that Congress didn’t fully fund it last year and probably won’t fully fund it now is not because this latest Bill did not pass. If the Appropriations Committee wasn’t going to fund it before, what makes you think that this new Bill would have been funded any differently?

I agree that at 3.2 million a mile, we need the full 2.1 billion, not the 1.2 billion allotted. Cannot find where 1/2 of the money is required to go toward other purposes. If the fence is not built and the money not allocated, then we have an entire federal government telling the public that passing a bill and enforcing a bill are a total waste time.