Aiming for the Fence
EmailABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Long shot Presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter, Republican of San Diego, is holding a press conference in Texas Wednesday to demand answers from President Bush on the issue of immigration, specifically, why the fencing approved by Congress has not been built.
Hunter has not been cast by the media as the anti-illegal immigration candidate, that mantle has largely gone to Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and his "army against amnesty." But, it was Duncan Hunter who was instrumental in passing a law in the ’90s to put a double layer fence along the Mexican Border in Hunter’s district.
Congress authorized and funded similar fencing in other border states last year, but so far, according to Hunter, there has not been enough progress in construction. He said only 17.9 miles of fencing has been built in multiple states.
Hunter calls this pace "a case of the slows."
Hunter, a supporter of President Bush’s Iraq strategy, sent a letter to the President Tuesday demanding answers and scheduled a press conference for Wednesday.
Tancredo made news recently when he accused liberal American cities, so-called sanctuary cities, of contributing to violent crime in America by not focusing their law enforcement on illegal immigrants.
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While President Bush announces his illegal immigration plans and initiatives, it is wise for him and his administration to look at the bigger picture and see other critical issues that are affecting the lives of millions of Americans today as well as people world wide. Issue such as Global Poverty may play a great tribute to the number of illegal immigrants in this country. By improving the quality of life for the 1.2 billion people that suffers poverty world wide, this administration may actually start to solve the issue of illegal immigration. As on the nation that pledged to fulfill the goals of Millennium Development Project, whose goal is the elimination of world hunger and poverty, this administration has not shown any substantial action to bring this fundamental problem to a stop. Acoording to the World Bank, only $19 billion dollars are needed annually to stop world wide poverty, hunger and malnutrition. However, more than $340 billion dollars has been poured into this “war on terror.” And each year, our country has a military budge of $522 billion dollars. It’s time for a new leader who will be addressing an issue that affects 1.2 billion people everyday worldwide.
Posted by: Mstessyrue | August 22, 2007, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm