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Where's the Fence? (Build it and they won't come).(Inside Track)(Mexico border)
Last year, responding to pressure from angry constituents over our continued open border with Mexico, Congress okayed funding for constructing hundreds of miles of fence along the border. The Bush administration, however, has dawdled and delayed; only a couple miles of fence have actually been built. Only a few dozen miles of our more than 2,000mile border with Mexico are actually protected by credible fences and barriers.
During June, as the congressional showdown over the Kennedy-Bush amnesty bill for illegal aliens heated up, a border security watchdog group, Grassfire.org, unleashed a humorous national television commercial campaign with a serious message: "Where's the Fence?"
The "Where's the Fence?" ads, which quickly became a YouTube favorite, feature three elderly ladies searching for--and not finding--the fence Congress pledged to build at the border. It's a take-off on the 1984 Wendy's hamburger ad campaign featuring actress Clara Peller asking, "Where's the beef?"
Ron De Jong, communications director for Grassfire.org, called it "obscene" that only a few miles of fencing ...
- Border fence could impact Valley refuges, protected land.
- Newspaper article from: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) September 27, 2007 700+ words
...indirect impacts from a proposed border fence, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...detailing where fragments of a border fence are likely to be placed, and a...environmental groups to oppose the border fence, has released its own map combining...
- Congress Set To Repeat Border Fence Funding Hoax.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 14, 2007 700+ words
...bill, Congress is set to repeat a border fence funding hoax that makes the specific...actually build a double-layer border fence," says Elliott. Grassfire.org has filed a Special Report on the Border Fence Funding Hoax, complete with timelines...
- Does the Border Fence Work?
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 9, 2009 700+ words
...documenting the construction of the border fence. The results of this survey...January 15, 2009. Entitled, "The border fence, where is it and does it work...review the recent history of the border fence, including the double fence at...
- Area artists attempt to capture border fence conflict on canvas.
- Newspaper article from: Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, TX) October 22, 2006 700+ words
...to the planned U.S.-Mexico border fence President George W. Bush signed...where the Mexican side of that border fence has become the canvas to bold artistic...shown an interest in dissecting the border fence issue in their work. People are...
- US-Mex border fence completion eludes government.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire June 11, 2009 700+ words
...months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration...acres of land stranded between the border fence and the Rio Grande? The answers...Grande's sharp curves and the border fence's relatively straight path leave...
- Congressmen Push for Completion of Border Fence; Washington Paralyzed Over...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 29, 2005 700+ words
...a gaping hole in the California border fence, a hole that means that this country...this country, in part because a border fence in California has never been completed...Mexican residents peering across the border fence, as you can see behind me, several...
- Making way for a border fence.
- Newspaper article from: Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, TX) May 6, 2007 700+ words
...receive the first sections of the border fence to be constructed along the Mexican...environmental rules to allow for the border fence to be constructed. The move circumvented...on the backburner, the proposed border fence was thrust into the spotlight a...
- HARMAN CALLS CALIFORNIA BORDER FENCE WAIVER "IRRESPONSIBLE.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 10, 2005 700+ words
...support the completion of the San Diego border fence. I do not, however, support waiving...ensure the construction of border fences. This waiver includes civil rights...laws. In fact, 14 miles of the border fence have already been built without such...
- Funding for 700-mile border fence falls short.
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) February 6, 2007 700+ words
...only half the U.S.-Mexico border fence Congress demanded last fall, leaving...Democrats supported the full-border fence when Congress enacted it last fall...Texas, who both voted for the fence, questioned from the outset whether...
- EDITORIAL: Backtracking on that ugly border fence.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL) May 16, 2007 700+ words
...long opposed the building of a border fence, signed the legislation into law...restrictionists, who believe a border fence is badly needed to protect the...the building of the so-called border fence, which only big-time politicians...
Source: HighBeam Research, Where's the Fence? (Build it and they won't come).(Inside...