Border Bills Packaged into DHS Appropriations Legislation
Submitted by CapitolStandard on Mon, 10/02/2006 - 22:16
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The 109th Congress adjourned last week after voting on a series of border security measures, including $1.2 billion for the construction of a border wall along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, and increasing the penalties for the building of illegal border tunnels between the two countries, a measure that was co-sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Feinstein recently sent a letter to Mexico President Vicente Fox, asking him to open an investigation into a recently discovered border tunnel on Mexican Customs property across from the San Diego region in San Ysidro, and the alleged involvement of a Mexican Customs agent in the construction of the tunnel.
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