Giffords Fights Fence -- Arizona Congresswoman Opposes Security Measure

Giffords Fights Fence
Arizona Congresswoman Opposes Security Measure

American Patrol Report -- July 17

Giffords and "fence" that protects Ft. Huachuca -- ("Fence" photo by American Border Patrol dated June 3, 2009)

    According to an Associated Press report Arizona Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords has joined six other Democrat lawmakers and signed a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic House leaders to keep a requirement for double layer fencing out of a final Homeland Security spending bill.
    Giffords' district includes the headquarters of American Border Patrol, the site of a Fourth of July border banner demanding the completing of the border fence. The banner made headline news in the Sierra Vista Herald on the Fourth of July. One of Giffords' two district offices is in Sierra Vista.
    Fencing along the border has helped stem the flood of illegal aliens and drugs into Giffords' district, but the government has not finished the job. "It is incredible to me that an elected representative would take steps to defeat a system that has already proven to improve safety and security," (see today's NY Times said Glenn Spencer of the American Patrol Report.
    Spencer said one of the most vulnerable spots on the border is a stretch just south of the Ft. Huachuca, headquarters of Army intelligence.
    It has no fence at all, he says. It is in Giffords' district. "I hope voters ask Giffords why she does not want to protect their country, to say nothing of a sensitive Army facility," Spencer added.