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Letter to the Editor
Arizona Republic -- March 2, 2008Dear Editor:
Your editorial "Fence to nowhere" misses the mark as to cause of failure. Secretary of Homeland Security, Mr. Chertoff, is a fan of amnesty and a North American Union, as is his boss, President Bush. This explains why we are having trouble.
In July 2006, I predicted the failure of the virtual fence because Boeing would not be given proper requirements. This has been confirmed.
On December 7, 2007, the DHS issued a press release claiming it had completed 284 miles of fence. A few days later Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison rammed through an amendment that effectively killed the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
As the GAO reported since the signing of the Secure Fence Act, DHS had not completed 284 of new fence, but only 90 miles. Much of the fence is years old.
I have a ranch on the border where seven miles of fencing was to be built. It has now been cancelled.
The failure of the virtual fence and the slow pace of the physical fence were caused, not by technical and legal problems, but by an open borders philosophy of our government and its leader President George Bush.
Glenn Spencer
President
American Border Patrol
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