From a press release:
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today adopted a measure authored by U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) to provide over 200 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers along Arizona’s border with Mexico.
“The new fencing and vehicle barriers authorized in my amendment will provide much stronger border security for Arizona,” said Kyl. “It will make it much more difficult for smugglers and illegal aliens to gain entry, significantly reduce crime rates in border towns, and preserve fragile desert lands and archeological resources which are impacted by illegal pedestrian and vehicular traffic.”
The measure adopted to the Immigration and Nationality Act, will replace all aged, deteriorating, or damaged primary fencing (includes unsightly “landing mat” fences) with double or triple layered “see through” fencing in Arizona population centers along the border. It would also extend that fencing no less than two miles beyond main population centers, and then add at least 200 miles of vehicle barriers to areas that are known transit points for illegal cross border traffic.