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| Formerly headed the House Immigration Subcommittee. He knows what he is talking about. He nailed Robert Bach in 1999. |
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Dallas Morning News -- April 14
Lamar Smith: Why not use the tools Congress already passed?
In 1996, Congress passed comprehensive immigration reform to put an end to the growing problem. Unfortunately, both Republican and Democratic administrations refused to enforce the law. So Congress spent the past decade passing more laws to try to quell the flood of illegal immigration. These too remain largely unenforced.
For example, in 2006 Congress called on the administration to secure one-third of the border with a fence. The Secure Fence Act authorized the Department of Homeland Security to build more than 700 miles of fencing along the southwest border. To date, only 167 miles of fencing have been constructed.* [...]
No new tools are required. No new laws are needed. We simply need the administration to enforce the immigration laws that Congress has already passed.
*This number is from American Border Patrol. There is no other source for this exact number. ABP will update survey this week. |
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