Republicans Want To Build 700 Miles Long Fence To Shut Down Illegal Immigration...

Associated Press SUZANNE GAMBOA December 15, 2005 at 11:56 PM
AP/Enric Marti

The House called for construction of a fence along parts of the U.S. border from the Pacific Coast to the Gulf of Mexico as a bill aimed at shutting down illegal immigration moved forward Thursday.

The two-layered fence, about 700 miles long, would be built in parts of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The provisions, passed 260-159, put priority on construction near Laredo, Texas. The city is across the border from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where warring drug cartels have been blamed for more than 140 murders this year.

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