February 11, 2005: Headlines: COS - Colombia: Congress: Immigration: San Fransisco Chronicle: By a 243-179 vote, the House turned aside a bid by Rep. Sam Farr, D- Carmel, to kill the border fence provision
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February 11, 2005: Headlines: COS - Colombia: Congress: Immigration: San Fransisco Chronicle: By a 243-179 vote, the House turned aside a bid by Rep. Sam Farr, D- Carmel, to kill the border fence provision
By a 243-179 vote, the House turned aside a bid by Rep. Sam Farr, D- Carmel, to kill the border fence provision
By a 243-179 vote, the House turned aside a bid by Rep. Sam Farr, D- Carmel, to kill the border fence provision
House OKs ban on licenses for illegal immigrants
Bill also encourages bounty hunters to track down those ordered deported
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Friday, February 11, 2005
Washington -- The House, with proponents arguing for a more effective war against terrorists, overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that would make it practically impossible for California and other states to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
The legislation included a last-minute amendment that would encourage bounty hunters to track down hundreds of thousands of immigrants whom courts have ordered deported -- which opponents likened to efforts to round up slaves before the Civil War.
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By a 243-179 vote, the House turned aside a bid by Rep. Sam Farr, D- Carmel, to kill the border fence provision.
"It took a shorter period of time to win World War II then it has to complete this fence,'' said Rep. David Dreier, R-San Dimas (Los Angeles County). Then-President Bill Clinton signed the law authorizing the 14-mile barrier in 1997.
All but about 3 miles have been completed. The remainder -- now dubbed "smugglers' gulch'' -- was held up over environmental concerns for protecting wetlands, endangered species and American Indian artifacts.
Farr said allowing the federal government to skirt environmental, competitive bidding and labor laws was not the way to protect the nation from terrorists.
"My amendment was not about preventing the remaining 3 miles of border fence in San Diego from being built," he said after the vote. "My amendment was about preserving the rule of law that our nation was founded on.''
E-mail Edward Epstein at eepstein@sfchronicle.com.
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