Quote:The problem was they never built the fence that was promised in 2006. Only a fool would believe the border would actually be secured before the legalization began. Based on that, it WAS an amnesty bill.

The 2006 fence was unrealistic from the start, and DHS knew it. They were only too happy to go back to Congress after the fact and say that the dual-layer fence they'd been instructed to build wasn't going to happen because of terrain and environmental concerns, get authorization to make it primarily a combination of single-layer sheet metal fencing and "vehicle barriers" (railroad track buried in the ground to keep vehicles from coming across) that are completely ineffective against pedestrians, then pocket the difference between what a dual-layer fence would have cost and what the "fence" they built actually did.

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