Senate Again OKs $3B for Border Security

“In a move to save President Bush from an embarrassing veto override, Senate Republicans on Wednesday again won $3 billion to try to gain control over the U.S. border with Mexico.

The funding was added by a 95-1 vote to a bill appropriating $459 billion for the Pentagon. It had already been adopted in July as part of a spending bill financing the Department of Homeland Security, but Bush has promised to veto that bill.

The border security spending, especially money to construct 700 miles of fencing to keep illegal immigrants from Mexico from crossing into the United States, is so popular among Republicans that they would vote to override Bush’s homeland security veto if necessary.”

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