Our goals with respect to fence total by the end of calendar 2008 are 670 miles of total pedestrian and vehicle fencing. Now I have to be clear, there’s a very important condition that has to be met if we are to live up to the goal at the end of calenda

Congress violated the Constitution when it allowed Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to ignore laws to build fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, environmental attorneys said Thursday. Attorneys for Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club filed

It had been reported that the new pedestrian barriers along the Mexican border were built with Chinese steel and Mexican panels. It now appears, based on information from American Border Patrol, that DHS cannibalized rails from the historic San Pedro and

The nation's top security official may use his power to unilaterally trump a federal court order halting construction of a fence on a stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is weighing whether to invoke a sectio

The new border fence near Naco, Arizona, touted by DHS Secretary Chertoff is far from finished. American Border Patrol surveyed the fence yesterday and found that the Granite Construction fence (5.16 miles) had less than 0.4 miles of pedestrian barriers i

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The arrest of two immigrant farm workers Wednesday prompted Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas to tell Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about the need for comprehensive immigration reform to ensure that farms have enough labor, Dougla

PHOENIX - Preparing for a meeting of border governors in Mexico, Gov. Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she plans to ask Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff why a highly touted virtual border fence is "virtually missing."