"THIS JUST IN - The US Senate has an important announcement about
the Americans who died to defend American borders, AND
the rash of illegal aliens raping and murderering Americans.
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Posted on 02/22/2008 12:37:26 AM PST by Froufrou
A 28-mile "virtual fence" that will use radars and surveillance cameras along the Mexican border to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday was to announce approval of the fence, which was built by the Boeing Co. and which uses technology the Bush administration plans to extend to other parts of the Arizona border as well as in Texas. These projects could get under way as early as this summer, officials said.
The virtual fence is part of a national plan to secure the southwest border with physical barriers and technological detection capabilities intended to stop illegal immigrants on foot and drug smugglers in vehicles. As of Feb. 8, 295 miles of fencing had been constructed.
The virtual fence already is working.
On Feb. 13, an officer in a Tucson command center — 70 miles from the border — noticed a group of about 100 people gathered at the border. The officer notified agents on the ground and in the air near the border. Border Patrol caught 38 of the 100 people who tried to cross illegally, and the rest of the people went back into Mexico, a Homeland Security official said.
The virtual fence system includes 98-foot unmanned surveillance towers that are equipped with an array of sophisticated technology including radar, sensor devices and cameras capable of distinguishing people from cattle at a distance of about 10 miles. The cameras are powerful enough to tell group sizes and whether people are carrying backpacks that may contain weapons or drugs.
Last year the government withheld some of Boeing's payments for the system because technology the company used in the test project did not work properly. Boeing also was late in delivering the final product.
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We now have virtual borders. Let’s hear it for the men and women who died to establish, protect and defend this nation.
It won’t stop one of them but they will have a good count of the illegals that they will never catch.
Looky thar, bubba, that thar’s a **fzzzt**
Never mind...
How about a wall, China managed 100s of years ago. I think maybe we are equal to the task. Hell maybe we can make it a volunteer project. I'll be glad to load a pickup full of cinder blocks and bags of mortar and drive to Texas and help put em up.
You can stay with us. Bring your shotgun.
How about a clear glass wall? At least it won’t be visible from the moon.
What’s the cost per mile for the virtual fence?
Get the concrete out, build the wall right, and be done with it.
Imagine if over the summer thousands of Americans drove to Texas and helped people who own land on the border to erect walls. I wonder what the government critters would do about it?
It would sure be worth the effort just to see the bleeding hearts cry about it.
"THIS JUST IN - The US Senate has an important announcement about
the Americans who died to defend American borders, AND
the rash of illegal aliens raping and murderering Americans.
. Hold on.... Here they come."
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Cool, now we can watch them as the sneak across the border and get some video souvenirs and pictures to show to our irate citizens! Then we can send in some virtual border guards in to take care of the problem and incarcerate the real intruders in our new virtual detention centers!
Cool.
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Maybe we could hook up the "virtual Border fence" to one of the popular Online Virtual Worlds. World of Warcraft would be awesome, Me and Mr."T" could guard Americans Virutal Fence with our "Wood Elf Mohawks"!!!!
That armpatch is scary. But I am not surprised, living in TX and seeing ‘foreign’ cars every day. You learn to recognize them. And steer clear.
I wonder if it would be as politically correct to make a video game of shooting border-crossers as it would running over pedestrians? Probably not. Old people aren’t part of the new world order.
“Old people aren’t part of the new world order.”
Crap, I’m in trouble now!
Virtual fences stop virtual invaders. What will stop the real thing?
Virtual bullets from virtual guns?
Politically incorrect shooter game. Click the black screen. http://nerdnirvana.org/g4m3s/borderpatrol.htm
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