Posted on 03/16/2010 5:04:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Janet Napolitano scraps U.S.-Mexico fence
By JEN DIMASCIO | 3/16/10 7:14 PM EDT
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has put the brakes on SBInet, the $3 billion plan to build a virtual fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.
“Not only do we have an obligation to secure our borders, we have a responsibility to do so in the most cost-effective way possible,” Napolitano said in a statement Tuesday. “The system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border known as SBInet has been plagued with cost overruns and missed deadlines.”
With that in mind, Napolitano is withholding funding for the program’s first deployment until a review she ordered in January is finished. And she’s taking away $50 million in stimulus funds from the Boeing-managed program. Instead, that funding will be put toward “other tested, commercially available security technology along the Southwest border.”
The project’s halt comes amid rising violence along the U.S. border with Mexico that has Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) urging Americans to heed the recent State Department travel warning to delay visits to the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua.
The move also comes about a week after the DHS inspector general found more problems with the project.
Responding, Boeing spokeswoman Jenna McMullin said the company has always recognized the importance of developing the program quickly and affordably for Customs and the Border Patrol.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34528.html#ixzz0iO5om4vq
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Bush proposed it with no intention of doing it and now Obama kills it. The entire political class—Rs and Ds—are rotten to the core on this issue.
Would you buy a used anythijng from this pathetic p.o.s. Napolitano?
Do you trust her with anything?
Was she put in her position to fail?
Concrete, steel and and barbed wire are much less prone to failure. But we told them that...
Gee, I didn't realize the Homeland Security Secretary was above the Congress and could set aside laws. You learn something new every day.
This woman is either retarded or evil, or both. You make the call.
Once WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, defeat this crapcare, obamanation, amnesty is our next fight! Steel yourselves, folks!
Landmines?
Janet, I hardly knew ye. :-)
"Not only do we have an obligation to secure our borders, we have a responsibility to do so in the most cost-effective way possible," Napolitano said in a statement Tuesday. "The system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border known as SBInet has been plagued with cost overruns and missed deadlines."
How about scrap the Health Care debacle and defund ACORN and Planned Parenthood and a few other of Obamas pet projects then maybe we could afford to protect OUR COUNTRY’S BORDERS!!!
withhold her paycheck!
I’m surprised it took this long. I guess they didn’t need those Obamavoters up here until now.
Janet.....are the voices in my head annoying you?
Retire Janet....your not the head of anything, you can’t lead anything,you can’t think for yourself,your the perfect candidate for a deanship somewhere at a small college...leave.
LOL! Like that ever stopped any government program, ever.
As I recall distinctly it was the Democrats who demanded we install those cameras and sensors.
They don’t want ANY fence; they want/need all the ‘voters’ they can get, legal or illegal makes no difference to “Incompetano” and company...............
“virtual fence” was John McCain’s (and others) juicy kiss to Boeing.
It was a boondoggle from the start.
I don’t think she’s warned the Mexicans of the minefields yet. They’ll find out.
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