Border security

DHS: Just 36 miles of U.S.-Mexico border has effective double fencing

Despite repeated congressional demands that the administration build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, some 66 percent, or 1,300 miles, have no fencing and only 36 miles of effective double-layer fencing has been erected, a fraction of the 700 miles sought. In answers to Senate questions, the Department of Homeland Security revealed just how little fencing has been erected despite a congressional bank account of $2.5 billion.