What happened to all the earlier tax dollars that have been ok’d for a fence??????????????
House Resolution 6061 (H.R. 6061), "Secure Fence Act of 2006", was introduced on September 13, 2006. It passed through the U.S. House of Representatives on September 14, 2006 with a vote of 283 to 138.
On September 29, 2006, by a vote of 80 to 19 the U.S. Senate confirmed H.R. 6061
President Bush signed HR 6061 into law on October 26, 2006.
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The Secure Border Initiative
(SBI) was a program created by Secretary Chertoff of DHS to organize the four operating components of border security: Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). SBI has 3 main operating goals: improve border security, increase interior enforcement of immigration and customs laws, and implement a Temporary Worker Program (TWP).
The only commitment that DHS has currently made is to pay for a 28-mile *pilot section* of SBInet in the Tucson sector of the Arizona-Mexico border.
The cost of this pilot section is estimated at $67 million. The value of Boeings three-year contract to build SBInet across both the northern and southern borders is estimated between $2 and $2.5 billion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBInet