---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 256"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "256"
heading: "Sense of Congress regarding construction of fencing near San Diego, California"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/256"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security"
  - "Part D — Immigration Enforcement Functions"
---

# §256. Sense of Congress regarding construction of fencing near San Diego, California


It is the sense of the Congress that completing the 14-mile border fence project required to be carried out under [section 102(b)](/usc/6/102.md) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ([8 U.S.C. 1103](/usc/8/1103.md) note) should be a priority for the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 446, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2195.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 102(b) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, referred to in text, is section 102(b) of title I of div. C of Pub. L. 104–208, which is set out as a note under section 1103 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.