Senator Pete Wilson offers similar language to Senate Defense Authorization Bill. Congressman Hunter presents his Four Achievable Victories in the Drug War to President Bush. Goals presented in the report include the building of a border road, the lighting of the twelve major smuggling corridors, the replacing of the chain-link fence with steel matting, and the use of the National Guard to build the roads and fence. President George Bush and Congressman Duncan Hunter. National Guard begins work on roads and fence.
Road grading work is underway.
Drug interdiction has already risen dramatically since the beginning of the border fence project, Congressman Hunter announces that 694 pounds of cocaine alone was captured along the border. Joint Task Force-Six maintains a team of twelve welders on the border who build and repair approximately 250 feet of fence per week.