Humans Events Online
by Amanda B. Carpenter
Last night the House voted 260 to 159 to approve an amendment to the bill sponsored by House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter (R.-Calif.) to authorize construction of several hundred miles of fencing along five strategic stretches of border.
Before the scheduled vote, Human Events Assistant Editor Amanda Carpenter asked Republicans if they thought the U.S. had the engineering capability to build a fence that would keep illegal aliens out, and the obvious follow-up: If we can build one, why not do it?
Sen. George Allen (R.-Va.), a likely 2008 presidential candidate, carefully straddled the fence on the fence issue. Hunter explained why it would work.
Posted by Richard at December 17, 2005