BTY, that fence is in Israel. Not only do they know how to profile airplane passengers, they obviously know how to build a fence.
Posted on 01/14/2011 10:53:30 AM PST by TSgt
The Department of Homeland Security today officially scrapped a Bush-era program designed to use radar technology to detect illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a DHS official and a congressional source.
The project, called "Virtual Fence," was rolled out under the Bush administration in 2006 with much fanfare about how technology could help secure the border. Illegal immigrants crossing the border would be detected by a radar and picked up by remote cameras, which were monitored by border patrol agents.
But numerous internal and Congressional reviews found consistent performance problems with the project's systems, which only spanned 53 miles of the vast U.S.-Mexico border.
The cameras often provided blurry images, the radar system performed poorly in bad weather, and it often displayed false detections that were unable to distinguish between humans, cars and animals.
There were also cost overruns and the primary contractor, Boeing, repeatedly missed deadlines, officials said.
"The SBInet program has been a grave and expensive disappointment since its inception," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., ranking member of the House Homeland Security committee, said in a statement.
The system is estimated to cost about $1 billion. If the entire project had been accepted and rolled out, its cost would have exceeded $6 billion.
"We know that we cannot continue to put out millions and millions of dollars of taxpayer's money if we're not confident that it's really not going to work,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who ordered a review of the program upon taking office, said in October.
DHS officials say the program will not be a total loss and that Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents will continue to use some of the systems that have been paid for.
Where did i mention Wookies?
how about every deportee gets to stop by and lay brick fer a day, from the other side of course ???
The JACKASSES claimed we didn’t need a real fence since we could ‘build’ a “virtual fence”. Congress approved a real fence but DUmocrats defunded it (still in the law to be built so they are in violation of their own law - no suprises there) and now the “virtual” fence is out, so we know what comes next....Hello AMNESTY!
So the real fence has been discontinued. The virtual fence has been discontinued . . . We’re pretty much back to where we were before our Ruling Class pretended to be interested in border security in order to secure an amnesty bill.
Details, please.
BTY, that fence is in Israel. Not only do they know how to profile airplane passengers, they obviously know how to build a fence.
Once their socialism runs out of money, they will need to keep the serfs IN.
Always follow the money and or potential voters for abortion loving candidate (Just remember what recent President has a abortion loving mother ;^)
NOW is the time to build the real fence from Gulf to shining sea.
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I have caught and reported numerous illegals.
As Glenn Beck put it so well.
A virtual fence works as good as a virtual condom.
And while that is exactly the type of fence that should go up on our southern border, instead of wasting over a billion dollars on a useless pork project like the virtual fence, there is no way something like that will ever get built on the Mexican border. It would be stalled by decades of “environmental impact studies”, human and animal rights activists, and corporate lobbyists whose benefactors profit from the illegal alien labor.
This is more bad news for Boeing who have had plenty of trouble with their 787.
When I said it was their brainchild, I didn’t mean they thought up with their own brains, just that some powerful people with big brains did it and gave it to them to pass through Congress.
Someone on this forum back in the Bush days had a tag line that said “Why isn’t there a virtual fence around the White House!? It’s still a highly relevant question.
>Former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart says the Republican party can’t appeal to the majority of Americans if it’s perceived to be against immigration...
Well, shes right - look at the ass whipping we just took in the mid terms.
Oh, wait...
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