Source:Orange County Registermetro,page 7
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AP photoBARRY MCCAFFREY

What a harrowing story:["Drug violence increasing along the U.S.
border,"news, Aug. 25].

It's hard for me to believe that White House Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey is
seriously interested in stopping the carnage along the U.S.Mexico border.

In approximately two weeks the military could lay three strands of
concertina wire the entire distance along the slowly progressing border
fence,which is projected to be completed in 19992000,from California
through Texas.

My husband attended a Public Safety subcommittee hearing on border crime in
July of 1996 at which this solution for securing the border was
discussed;yet our government continues to build the fence at a snail's pace
instead of considering the porous border a threat to our national security.

The money saved by our government entities,county,state and federal,would
far exceed the cost of the fence.

Patricia Shuff
Fullerton