Chairman. I will possibly offer an amendment to page 22 of the bill. I would invite the attention of the chairman of the committee and the attention of the ranking member of the committee to the fact that on page 22. section (L). reads: "acquisition of land as sites for enforcement fence and construction incident to such fence." I do not know if we are all acquainted with the concern which arose on the border as the immigration people. with some authorization from Congress. began to either reconstruct. add to or build new fencing on the Mexican border. Concern has been expressed that the fencing was almost inhumane. It was constructed so as to cut the fingers of anyone who tried to climb it. et cetera. We were assured by the Immigration and Naturalization Service that the construction would not include such features. Mr. Chairman. my concern is that this does not say where. it does not say how much. it does not say what type of fence. it says nothing except to give authorization to acquire land space for enforcement fence. whatever that might mean and apparently in whatever amounts they decide upon and whatever type construction they might choose.
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