These issues which are included in his amendment are not greatly dissimilar from the measures in terms of adding additional what we call "triggers" to the legislation. Let me just go back a step and relate why we have real reservations about the Coburn amendment. When we examined the broken immigration systomand we have had scores of hearings in the immigration committee and the Judiciary Committeewhat was offered on a number of different occasions said: We can solve our problem just by building a fence in the southwest border or just by having strong security in the southwest border. It is 1.800 miles down there. and we can fence off different areas and then use different kinds of technology. and that is going to solve the challenges we are facing with immigrants coming across the border. As we continued on through the course of the hearings. we say that in and of itself will not work. As Governor Napolitano said. if we just put a fence down along the southwest border. you put a 40foot fence in. there are going to be 41foot ladders that are going to come over that.
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