Okay, no fence in Arizona and I become a Democrat, then what's in it for me?
Posted on 01/19/2010 3:49:07 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
The Department of Homeland Security's latest version of a border "virtual fence" has suffered another setback.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Department of Homeland Security's latest version of a border "virtual fence" has suffered another setback — prompting Secretary Janet Napolitano to order a departmentwide reassessment of the program.
Officials expected to have a 17-tower system up and working along 23 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border flanking Sasabe, Ariz., by the end of 2009. But the handover to the Border Patrol has been delayed at least three more months. The Sasabe grid is the first in a series of virtual fences planned for the Southwest border.
In the fall of 2009, Napolitano directed the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to evaluate the SBInet program, according to a statement e-mailed from Napolitano.
"As his analysis uncovered unacceptable delays ... I ordered a departmentwide reassessment of the program to consider options that may more efficiently, effectively and economically meet our border security needs," Napolitano said in the statement. "Americans need border security now — not 10 years down the road. I am committed to ensuring that our border security programs are timely and cost-effective."
From 2006 through July 2009, Customs and Border Protection paid Boeing $1.1 billion to create and build a border-long network of camera, sensor and radar towers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in September.
To date, only a flawed test system in Arizona is being used by the Border Patrol.
Virtual fences along the entire Southwest border were supposed to be completed by October 2009. Now they are expected to be finished by 2016, the GAO reported.
Napolitano said the department will work with Congress, the GAO, border-state officials, law enforcement and technical experts "to ensure that we are maximizing every taxpayer dollar...."
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How much would a case of ammunition and badges for the Minutemen have cost? Seems like more money down the rathole.
Okay, no fence in Arizona and I become a Democrat, then what's in it for me?
Too bad we don't have vitural illegal aliens and terrorists coming across our border every day. And an amnesty will set off a stampede across the border.
Let’s not call them “illegals”. Let’s call them what they really are...”potential Democratic Voters”
Let’s not call them “illegals”. Let’s call them what they really are...”potential Democratic Voters”
I’ll embrace this whole-heartedly when the president replaces the wrought iron around the White House with a virtual fence.
They will never complete the entire project. They don’t want to complete the fence, even a virtual one.
Virtual fence = virtually a make believe or not real fence
Money. Rathole. Boeing. Half of all the money appropriated for the border fence project went to this, and they have NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT AFTER FOUR YEARS. We could have fenced the entire border, or double-fenced the most vulnerable parts, with the same money.
Lotsa rope needed soon.
Lotsa.
Of course they’ll never finish it. KBH, senator from Texas and currently running for governor, already shoved through legislation for law suits against it. That was the day I called and informed her office she would never get another vote from this house again.
And this looks like a new installment of Super Mario brothers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Virtual fence???????????they gotta be on drugs or spent to much time playing video games.
Virtual ping
ping
does a virtual fence catch virtual illegal aliens?
Virtually.
I see Arizona is progressing further on enforcing Immigration.
How do they keep electing McCain? Nevermind, the democrats vote him in. It might be fun seeing Pearce challenge McCain.
Ariz. Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill
PHOENIX — An Arizona Senate panel has approved a sweeping bill to strengthen immigration enforcement.
The measure passed the Republican-controlled Public Safety and Human Services Committee Wednesday on a 4-3 party-line vote.
It would ban police departments from adopting policies that prevent officers from asking people about their immigration status.
The bill also would make it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally or to transport or conceal an illegal immigrant. And it seeks to curb day-labor employment by making it illegal for an illegal immigrant to solicit work in a public place or for anyone to hire someone from a vehicle.
Mesa Republican Russell Pearce is sponsoring the measure. A similar bill passed the Senate last year but failed in the House.
We Don’t Need No Stinking BADGES!
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