Ariz. seeks online donations to build border fence
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Arizona lawmakers want more fence along the border with Mexico - whether the federal government thinks it's necessary or not.
They've got a plan that could get a project started using online donations and prison labor. If they get enough money, all they would have to do is get cooperation from landowners and construction could begin as soon as this year.
Gov. Jan Brewer recently signed a bill that sets the state on a course that begins with launching a website to raise money for the work, said state Sen. Steve Smith, the bill's sponsor.
"We're going to build this site as fast as we can, and promote it, and market the heck out of it," said Smith, a first-term Republican senator from Maricopa.
Arizona - strapped for cash and mired in a budget crisis - is already using public donations to pay for its legal defense of the SB1070 illegal immigration law.
Part of the marketing pitch for donations could include providing certificates declaring that individual contributors "helped build the Arizona wall," Smith said. "I think it's going to be a really, really neat thing."
Construction would start "after we've raised a significant amount of money first" but possibly as soon as later this year, Smith said.
"If the website is up and there is an overwhelming response to what we've done and millions of dollars in this fund, I would see no reason why engineering or initial construction or finalized plans can't be accomplished," he said.
The nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border already has about 650 miles of fence of one type or another, nearly half of it in Arizona. The state's 376-mile border is the busiest gateway for both illegal immigrants and marijuana smuggling.
Department of Homeland Security spokesman Matthew Chandler said federal officials declined to comment on the Arizona legislation.
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I think this is the ONLY way we'll see the border secure under Progressive Administrations. It's painfully obvious that THEY have no intention of closing the borders.
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Schteveo
7 comments:
And then this toad says on TV that the fence is completed. Really?
Didn't congress already appropriate money for a fence that was never put up?
Also, why aren't the people of AZ. paying for this priavte fence that protects them?
Well, Spider, it could be because Obama is FIGHTING them over ANY Border Security!
Also, the bill for a fence was passed, but the money never got spent.
Well in that case, we don't need to send them any money. Instead, we need to take this govt down (as in bang! bang!) before we all end up on the outside looking in!
BTW, i sent gov Brewer $100. when she was asking for donations to get her anti-illegal court case going.
we're baaaaack
the money got spent....we just don't know where and how....probably to prosecute a lawsuit against the state of Arizona.
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