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Homeland Security Axes Bush-Era 'Virtual Fence' Project
The project, called "Virtual Fence," was rolled out under the Bush administration in 2006 with much fanfare about how technology could help secure the border. Illegal immigrants crossing the border would be detected by a radar and picked up by remote cameras, which were monitored by border patrol agents.Another $1B boondoggle. But numerous internal and Congressional reviews found consistent performance problems with the project's systems, which only spanned 53 miles of the vast U.S.-Mexico border. I wonder how many millions of dollars it cost to figure this out. The new plan "will utilize existing, proven technology tailored to the distinct terrain and population density of each border region, including commercially available Mobile Surveillance Systems, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, thermal imaging devices, and tower-based Remote Video Surveillance Systems." Napolitano added. Welcome to the Obean administrations new, improved boondoggle. Gorb's solution: Build a fence. Build another one in parallel. Shoot anything that moves in between. And under. A fence doesn't need to be high-tech. All it does is slow down whoever it is you're trying to slow down until you get your people on the scene. If you don't do the latter it doesn't matter how high, tall, wide, deep or high-tech the fence is. Posted by: gorb 2011-01-14 |
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