Posted on 02/03/2010 10:58:21 AM PST by Kartographer
An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a "virtual fence" of cameras, ground sensors and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays.
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What a surprise! No one thought this would happen.
What a surprise! No one thought this would happen.
Border fence is not the problem anymore. Search the White Crib.
India, arguably a 3rd world cesspool, built a fence along their entire border with Bangledesh, a 4th world cesspool.
And yet our plan is labelled "ambitious", which is a loaded term meaning "doomed to fail".
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers notice lots of increased activity from Tohono reservation west to Organ Pipe. Even FBI border details working actively. Something has their attention. Illegals and drugs picking up pace - warm weather.
Perhaps we need to send Obama a message and throw a big muster on the border in April if he does not back off budget cuts.
OK.. unneeded slam against India, a good friend of the US.
Definitely a poor country but rising. Maybe 3rd world (maybe 2nd) but not a cesspool.
Let us not trash friends and especially democracies that are trying to do it the right way. India is no where near where we are, but they are trying and going in the right direction
**** the fence! Build a wall!
Agreed, I’ve never seen concrete or barbed wire have tech glitches.
I think we need a wall (about 20 feet high and deep enough to drive two golf carts on side by side) and then a 15 foot high fence about 100 yards out on the Mexico side.
Then I want armed troops walking that wall with engagement orders that say anything that moves inside the area between the fence and the wall is to be shot at until it quits twitching!
When such is done you have a reasonably secure Southern Border!
Rino Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison who’s running for governor of Texas (no chance) was asked about the fence last week in the debate. She has a political commercial claiming she’s for border security and has quadrupled the BP (uh, not her alone but the entire US Senate back during Bush and I’m running out of lamps to throw at the tv when it airs). A year or two ago, she amended the fence bill to allow law suits to be brought against it - that was when I called her office to inform them she’d never get another vote from this house. Well, when she was asked about the hundred$ of billion$ that was earmarked for the fence, she was crushed to admit only 10 miles along the Texas border had been built. Her fake toothy smile did nothing to detract from the daggers coming from her eyes at the questioner.
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This is why amnesty is such a huge mistake. The Feds have never intended to enforce immigration laws or protect our border.
WHAT A MESS OF A STORY: Really, really bad headline, and inaccurate in multiple cases. This story is about, not the border fence itself, “virtual fence” of cameras, ground sensors and radar. It was funded at less than a third of the amount the article states. It was never intended to “secure the entire border,” but only parts of the border in remote areas in Arizona. There are about 650 miles of real fence in place. Money for the “virtual fence” was taken from money appropriated by Congress for the real fence. The total amount appropriated was about $3 billion. With the money they wasted on the “virtual” fence, they could have built another 600 or so miles of real fence, or built double fencing where the real fence is only a single barrier. Instead of going with proven, existing monitoring systems used by the military and other governments for this experiment, they decided to reinvent the wheel, start from scratch and enrich Boeing instead. It is a total disaster, and a disgrace that spans both the Bush and Obama administrations.
Tough on the Tohono. They refused to allow their segment of the fence to be built.
There are about 100 miles (more or less) of fence in Texas. She didn’t even know?
Have you ever lived there? It's a cesspool!
If they build a fence, it will impede them from moving their drugs and illegal’s through their land.
You are giving them way too much credit for industry and ambition. Their gripe was with the supposed “environmental” impact. About half of them opposed it for that reason, the other half didn’t care. If those people could actually get it together to smuggle drugs or illegals, I would be astounded.
Another failed Bush legacy baton now in Obama’s shiftless hands.
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