NAPLES, Idaho -- Some northern Idaho residents are concerned about proposals by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to make the border area more secure.
The Bonner County Daily Bee reports thatone option that involves building a fence in places along the Idaho-Canada border has area residents especially concerned.
Federal officials on Thursday held a meeting to gather public opinion on five potential options that range from doing nothing to building a fence.
Idaho Republican Rep. George Eskridge of Dover in a written statement to the agency says building a fence would send the "worst possible message to our friends and neighbors to the north."
The five options are part of a document called a programmatic environmental impact statement that will be under public review until Oct. 31.
