In 1978 Congress allocated 4.3 million USD to replace a 27 mile long fence near San Ysidro, California, and El Paso, Texas, and build 6 miles of new fence (a.k.a Tortilla wall)
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The U.S. Congress approved a $4.3 million request by Immigration and Naturalization Service, in 1978, to build a fence along the border to replace an existing 27-mile (43 km) fence near San Ysidro, California, and El Paso, Texas, and then build an additional 6 miles (9.7 km) of new fence
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This is what INS envisions with its new fencing scheme: About six miles of the tough new steel grid, concrete and chain-link fencing will replace old fencing on the border south of San Diego, at a point known as San Ysidro. A similar length will be erected in the downtown area and outskirts of El Paso, which sits on the international border. Congress last year appropriated $4 million for the El Paso and San Ysidro spans. Future construction would include another stretch at San Luis, Ariz., about 10 miles south of Yuma. Congress this year approved $1.5 million at the behest of Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), who said the fence would protect Yuma from borderjumping thieves. In each instance, the new fence is intended to replace old barriers that are riddled with holes - some large enough to drive an automobile through.
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