Yuma County Chief Deputy Leon Wilmot noted that before the wall was built, he responded to reports of robberies, smuggling, rapes, and killings on a daily basis. Since its construction, he relished in the fact that such reports now are almost non-existent.
So to those who say the fence won't work, there is proof that it does!
And once again, Arizona gives the feds the middle finger! HA! So get to work and sue Arizona again Obama for doing the job you were supposed to do!
The final bill text as signed can be viewed here:
SB 1406
The bill does several key things:
1) Authorizes the building of this fence on any state or federal property as needed.
2) Establishes a trust fund managed by the state treasurer to facilitate the planning, building and maintenance of the fence.
3) Establishes a new special committee called The Joint Border Security Advisory Committee which can:
* Take testimony and other evidence regarding the international border with Mexico.
* Analyze border crossing statistics.
* Analyze related crime statistics.
* Make recommendations designed to increase border security.
* Administer and manage the construction and maintenance of the border fence.
* Make other recommendations deemed essential by the committee.
In other words, the committee does all the things the feds refuse to do to protect the border.
One thing that was curious is that the bill states that it will only build parts of the fence on any private property with consent of the land owners. But it doesn't make any provision that I saw for what to do in case the land owner does not give consent.
So that raises the question whether people sympathetic to smugglers and drug dealers could possibly purchase some of these border properties to mitigate the bill's effectiveness?
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