Posted on 10/22/2010 2:04:15 PM PDT by Kartographer
The Department of Homeland Security is backing off what was to have been a multibillion-dollar effort to build an "invisible fence" that was meant to catch drug and human traffickers with cameras, vibration sensors and other high-tech devices.
Of the projected 2,000-mile impenetrable wall of technology that the project was supposed to supply, only about 53 miles of unreliable monitoring systems were built. And the price tag for that work, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, was in excess of a cool $1 billion.
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Failure by design. The future of the Democrat Party hinges entirely on voter fraud, and getting those voters up here from Mexico.
It was an obvious Bushy boondoggle for Boeing at the time of its inception. People joked “they can’t be serious” but Bush pushed it through. Part of his phony “I’ll pretend to protect the border, if you gimme Amnesty and more green cards and more wage deflation” agenda.
All these sensors could ever do was alert the very people that haven't been doing anything about illegal immigration (other than suing states and sheriffs) that we have intruders. Then they would just brush it off like they always have.
As was the creation of “Homeland Security” aka the union full employment act.
Just one of the many things that *they* don’t listen to.
Maybe if we hung a few on the fence like we do coyotes?
At the time when Bush was selling this, someone here at FR said I’ll agree to a “virtual” fence when Bush agrees to “virtual” secret service bodyguards.
This was all designed from the get-go to fail so the media could come back and say “See! Billions of dollars spent with no results. The border fence is a waste of money.”
We could have had a concrete wall with cameras for HALF of that.
“We could have had a concrete wall with cameras for HALF of that.”
Yeah and think of all the illegal concrete laborers that could have been employed! ;-)
I wrote to the White House when they announced the "virtual fence" suggesting that if they feel it's such a great solution, that the White House replace the security fence with the same "virtual fence."
I guess they didn't think much of my suggestion.
Mark
Pinging Darrell Issa, documentation and costs STAT for hearing.
ping
In Yuma, Ariz., border patrol agents tout the success of a high triple-and double-layered wall.
Meanwhile, our globalist leaders waste $1B dollars so they can claim fences don’t work. Oh, how I despise them and their refusal to secure the borders.
“Followed by his equally ‘serious’ boondoggle of putting 6000 NG on the border.”
I remember that. It was a joke.
In this case “virtual” means “not existent in the real world.”
Which many of us said would be the case when this silly notion was first floated by the Bushies.
it is a failure because they never built it.
But never stop embracing that stupid, invisible Bush conspiracy. You Bush-haters aren't pathetic at all. I mean it. Really.
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