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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Bush vows to build fence

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President Bush yesterday pledged to follow through on building 698 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border but said that the Department of Homeland Security will decide where and that he wants sensors and cameras to watch the border.

"We're going to do both," Mr. Bush said at a press conference yesterday. "We're just going to make sure that we build it in a spot where it works."

Some fence advocates and members of Congress have questioned Mr. Bush's commitment to fencing. The president yesterday said it is a part of his broader border-security strategy.

"You can't fence the entire border, but what you can do is you can use a combination of fencing and technology to make it easier for the Border Patrol to enforce our border," he said.

Mr. Bush said any solution on the border will also require a guest-worker program, which he said would funnel workers through legal points of entry.

Mr. Bush last week signed the homeland-security spending bill, which includes $1.2 billion for fencing and other infrastructure, such as cameras, vehicle barriers and ground-based radar.

He has also promised to sign the Secure Fence Act, which Congress passed last month and which authorizes 698 miles of wall along the border. That bill passed 283-138 in the House and 80-19 in the Senate.

As of Tuesday, the bill had not been transmitted to the White House for the president to sign, and groups that advocate for rights for illegal aliens are urging Mr. Bush to veto it.

Yesterday, the Catholic Church joined that call in a letter from Bishop William Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

He said that fencing could cause the death of illegal aliens trying to sneak into the country and that it "would send the wrong signal to our peaceful neighbor to the south, Mexico, as well as the international community."

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