by jeff martin

Blue Springs Examiner

Congressman Sam Graves, R-6th District, visited Guier Fence in Blue Springs Tuesday afternoon - not to shop, but to support his bill to stop funding for a failed pilot project to build a “virtual fence” protecting the country’s Mexican border.

“Congress passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 that required 700 miles of fencing,” Graves said at an appearance at Guier Fence in Blue Springs. “It’s unacceptable that more than two years later we only have 300 miles completed with an actual fence.”

Grave’s told a small gathering at the Blue Springs business that a 28-mile pilot project south of Tucson, Ariz., a virtual fence, had failed, and now the Department of Homeland Security wants to delay the program three years while it works out technical glitches.

“There are some areas along the border where illegal immigrants are literally streaming in,” Graves said. “That’s unacceptable, and it puts our nation at risk.”

“Having a wide open border makes it all too easy for illegal immigrants to cross into this country,” he said. “It’s a security threat.”

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