A significant number of tunnels have been detected in recent years. and the fences that will be erected pursuant to a recently passed fence bill will resuit in even more tunnels. I agree that we need to prosecute people involved in building or using them. The question. however. is not whether we should facilitate such prosecutions but whether we should pass such narrowly focussed legislation before we have addressed the larger immigration problems. The Border Tunnel Prevention Act will facilitate the prosecution of people who build or use tunnels to cross the border illegally. It will not secure our borders. If tunnels cannot be built to cross under a fence. the immigrants simply will go around the fence. Instead of voting on H.R. 4830 and other bills that raise a few issues on a piecemeal basis. we should be going to conference to resolve the differences between the House and Senate immigration reform bills that have already passed. If we fix our broken immigration system and provide a sufficient number of visas for lawful entries. we will not need to worry about tunnels that take people across the border.
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