KING URGES SENATE TO PASS BORDER FENCE BILL
Border Security Bill, Approved by House, Awaits Action by Senate
WASHINGTON - As the Senate remains poised this week to hear the House-passed Secure Fence Act, which would erect a 700-mile border fence, U.S. Rep. Steve King (IA - 05) today released the following statement:
"Americans continue to tell us that they will not be satisfied until our border is secure and our current laws enforced. Our gaping borders threaten our security, and drugs and crime are coming over the border every single day. It is downright dangerous for any Senator to vote against protecting Americans. A border wall, designed effectively, so it cannot be tunneled under or scaled, will direct traffic to legal ports of entry.
"I encourage our colleagues on the other side of the rotunda not to ignore the American people."
In July, House leadership asked King to demonstrate his wall design to the Homeland Security and Government Reform committee hearing on border barriers. King, a contractor by trade, designed a cost-effective twelve-foot high concrete border wall to be difficult to tunnel under or scale, to reinforce the southern border.
King serves on the House Judiciary Committee, Immigration Subcommittee and the House Immigration Reform Caucus. He has long called for a common-sense immigration reform policy that returns jobs back to American workers by shutting off the jobs magnet and ending birthright citizenship, along with building barriers along the border to direct all traffic through the legal ports of entry.
In August 2005, King brought immigration reform experts to hold forums on border security and immigration reform across western Iowa.
