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In 2006, during the presidency of George W. Bush, Congress approved Secure Fence Act which allowed the Department of Homeland Security to erect a border fence along the U.S.–Mexico border. Congress also approved a different law called the REAL ID Act which gave the Department of Homeland Security the approval to build the wall without taking ...
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorizes the construction of 700 additional miles (1,100 km) of double chain link and barbed wire fences with light and infrared camera poles. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 ( Pub. L. 109–367 (text) (PDF) ), also labelled H.R. 6061, is an act of the United States Congress which authorized and partially funded the ...
[47] The Secure Fence Act's costs were estimated at $6 billion, [48] more than the Customs and Border Protection's entire annual discretionary budget of $5.6 billion. [49] The Washington Office on Latin America noted in 2013 that the cost of complying with the Secure Fence Act's mandate was the reason that it had not been completely fulfilled. [50]
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Fence viewers act in groups of three so there will be a majority. They are paid eight dollars per day and compensated seven cents per mile for travel to the location of any dispute. Fence viewers judge if a fence is in disrepair and order that it be fixed; however, if the order goes unheeded, the matter is turned over to a Justice of the Peace ...
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