WASHINGTON – A House subcommittee chairman has questioned whether taxpayers are getting their money’s worth in border protection as people continue breaking through barriers to enter the United States illegally.

At a hearing Tuesday on funding for border security, Rep. David Price, D-N.C., challenged the Homeland Security Department to explain why it has effective control of only 1 percent of the country’s 4,000 mile border with Canada.

Of the $3.6 billion Congress has allocated for border security, $2 billion has been spent building 610 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

House subcommittees are considering the agency’s requests for funding to boost security along the U.S. borders and to help curb Mexican drug violence.