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The Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109–367 (text)), also labelled H.R. 6061, is an act of the United States Congress which authorized and partially funded the construction of 700 miles (1,125 km) of fencing along the Mexican border.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed into law on October 26, 2006, by President George W. Bush [35] authorized and partially funded the potential construction of 700 miles (1,100 km) of physical fence/barriers along the Mexican border. The bill passed with supermajorities in both chambers.
The Bill proposes 370 miles (600 km) of fencing along highly populated areas near the border; H.R. 4437 proposes 700 miles (1,100 km) of fencing. The Bill does not mention any expanded role for local law enforcement for border enforcement tasks (primarily for interior enforcement) the way that H.R. 4437 does.
Ultimately, the United States seeks to put fencing around the 1,945-mile (3,130 km) border, but the act requires only 700 miles (1,100 km) of fencing. DHS secretary Michael Chertoff has bypassed environmental and other oppositions with a waiver that was granted to him by Congress in Section 102 of the act, which allows DHS to avoid any ...
Although the 1,000-foot barrier does little to fully plug the roughly 1,200-mile border, it may have helped thrwart illegal crossings in and around Eagle Pass, which plummeted to 8,500 last month ...
According to the Washington Post, the hopes were complicated by the recent approval of the SBI (Secure Border Initiative), a bill that includes building a 700-mile (1,100 km) triple fence between the U.S. and Mexico.
A new surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border is overwhelming already-stretched resources and prompting urgent talks with Mexican officials as December border crossings reached a record monthly ...
A suspected ringleader of the March border riot in Texas where a mob of hundreds of migrants bum-rushed the wall has finally been nabbed after seven months on the run, The Post has learned.