Homeland Security by Richard White & Tina Bynum & Stan Supinski

Author:Richard White & Tina Bynum & Stan Supinski [White, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: CW Productions
Published: 2016-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

While much attention has been focused on high-tech surveillance capabilities, border security also relies on the low-tech capabilities of fences. The former INS installed the first fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border beginning in 1990 east of the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. Congress expressly authorized the construction and improvement of fencing and other barriers under Section 102(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), which also required the completion of a triple-layered fence along the original 14-mile border segment near San Diego. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 amended IIRIRA with a requirement for double-layered fencing along five segments of the Southwest border, totaling about 850 miles. IIRIRA was amended again by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, FY2008. Under that amendment, the Secretary of Homeland Security was directed to construct reinforced fencing “along not less than 700 miles of the southwest border where fencing would be most practical and effective and provide for the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors to gain operational control of the southwest border.” The act further specified, however, that the Secretary of Homeland Security is not required to install fencing “in a particular location along the international border of the United States if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location.” [5, p. 16]

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