Border Fence Construction Not Moving Fast Enough for Rep. Hunter (A Republican presidential candidate I might add)

“As Republican presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter has staked out the U.S.-Mexico border fence as one of this top priorities, he has repeatedly criticized the Department of Homeland Security for planning to build only half of the 700 miles of border fence authorized by Congress last year and acting too slowly to do even that.

The Mexican border “is our biggest homeland security problem” and “this administration has a case of “the slows’ on border enforcement,” Hunter said at a Republican presidential candidate debate in May, repeating “the slows” criticism in the June debate.

But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said technology such as radar can be more effective than fencing, and DHS is deciding on what mix of fencing and technology to build.”

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