Posted on 05/19/2016 11:56:30 AM PDT by Will88
Reporting from Washington — The Department of Homeland Security, positioning itself to cut its losses on a so-called invisible fence along the U.S.- Mexico border, has decided not to exercise a one-year option for Boeing to continue work on the troubled multibillion-dollar project involving high-tech cameras, radar and vibration sensors.
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If I recall correctly, Obama stopped it because they couldn’t distinguish between a wild animal and a human and were getting too many false positives.
Seems to me that it was working, and you simply needed a hand full of people to monitor the images until you could refine the software a little bit.
This is an article from 2010.
Why post it now?
I think most of us would be more interested in what is going on now, and what is planned, rather than what was planned six years ago.
Comment #1 explains why post it now.
In addition to Mexicans coming across the border, there are tens of thousands coming from Central and South America. And there are thousands of others coming from countries like China, India, and the Middle East. Mexico will not accept them back into Mexico if they are not Mexican citizens. Securing the border is a national security issue.
Seems to me that it was working, and you simply needed a hand full of people to monitor the images until you could refine the software a little bit.
It was never working if you use the metric of stopping illegal entry into the US. It is not enough to monitor people coming thru. You need to apprehend them and deport them. Once they get across the border, it becomes more difficult to deport them. They are imbued with various rights and protections. Our immigration courts are overwhelmed.
Bricks and barbed wire are much cheaper.
High tech methods can work as well as a wall in my opinion.
Drones alone with monitoring can be greatly effective, I would think.
It is a simple matter of will.
That's a fence.
How much of the fence is constructed at this level? Does anyone know?
It not a virtuap one, but invisible fence might keep YOUR dog in. But it won’t keep out dogs who want to come in and attack your dog.
That seems to go a bit beyond a virtual fence, and that’s what needed.
The virtual fence is a nonsense idea from the get go unless they planned to incinerate the illegal border crossers with lazers, or have BP stationed every half mile.
Only a serious wall or double fencing, plus electronic monitoring, will ever provide adequate security on the southern border, and that will need adequate BP on 24/7 patrol to apprehend any who manage to slip through.
That is how it’s done.
All useless unless there is adequate BP to apprehend those who still cross, and that would require BP every half mile or so in many areas of frequent crossings. And then the next administration who wants no border control would simply remove the BP as Obama has done.
I always thought it was just a diversion by W who had no intention of securing the border.
It was just that...
It's a gimmick he dreamed up to avoid having to keep his promise to build a real border fence.
So he wasted the money congress provided on high-tech gimmicks that accomplished nothing other than making the contractors a little richer.
And Obama has been only too happy to keep the scam going.
Agree 100%. I was Googling before posting this article and came across one topic where JEB was praising the virtual wall idea.
BORDER
o Yes Wall, No fence.
o No electrical, so it cannot be turned off by Democrats.
o All Executives building fences should be imprisoned for treason eg Boeing.
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