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Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« on: January 15, 2011, 06:29:50 AM »
Remember? Bush wanted a virtual fence in 2006, and BHO touted and praised technology, to secure the border during the campaign. NOW, of course it's ALL Bush's fault...

It only covered a 53 mile stretch, cost a BILLION DOLLARS or so, and is being scrapped.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/01/homeland-security-axes-bush-era-virtual-fence-project.html

ABC News' Jason Ryan reports: 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.

A DHS assessment released today found that "the SBInet system is not the right system for all areas of the border and it is not the most cost-effective approach to secure the border. However, some elements of the SBInet development have provided useful capability."*

"DHS briefed Congress today on my decision to end SBInet as originally conceived and on a new path forward for security technology along the Southwest border," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today. "There is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution to meet our border technology needs, and this new strategy is tailored to the unique needs of each border region."

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Gov't at work...and what did we get for $1Billion?   An "ooooppps, our bad",.....
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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2011, 06:42:49 AM »
um, I can build a 10' high block wall with razor wire and the hole 9 yards for alot less then that.

even if I charge $500/ft I'm still   Its still only 140 mil.   Hell even if I deside I want to bend the .gov over and change 2000/ft I'm still less then half that.

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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2011, 07:04:44 AM »
If only we had virtual illegals it would be perfect. Sadly, we have a virtual immigration policy instead. :P
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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2011, 11:37:34 AM »
Makes sense....we've had virtual border enforcement for decades....  ::)

Maybe we should try ACTUAL border enforcement instead.....  >:(
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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2011, 12:34:37 PM »
Quote from: fightingquaker13 on January 15, 2011, 07:04:44 AM
If only we had virtual illegals it would be perfect. Sadly, we have a virtual immigration policy instead. :P
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That one was good, FQ.  :D

Quote from: seeker_two on January 15, 2011, 11:37:34 AM
Makes sense....we've had virtual border enforcement for decades....  ::)

Maybe we should try ACTUAL border enforcement instead.....  >:(

And a zinger of a follow-up by Seeker.........
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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2011, 12:48:03 PM »
 No fence, aggressive patrolling by armed border guards with authority to detain any one in the border area and shoot to kill any who run. Augmented by fines AND jail time (No probation, no suspended sentences, Consecutive sentences only)
per illegal for employers of illegal aliens.
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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2011, 01:20:00 PM »
To go along the lines of what TAB was getting at (can you believe it?), but didn't Ancient China have a solution to this problem?

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Re: Virtual Border Fence: FAIL
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2011, 07:06:45 PM »
I guess it isn't just us.    ::)


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110115/wl_nm/us_greece_immigration_clashes

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Far-right protesters threw stones at a pro-migrant march in Athens on Saturday before being dispersed by bursts of teargas, police said, in the latest sign of tension over the capital's growing immigrant population.

Over 1,000 members of anti-racism groups, leftists and immigrants were marching in central Athens to protest against a controversial plan to build a fence at the border with Turkey to stop illegal immigrants from entering Greece.

"Over 100 members of neo-Nazi groups and about 200 local residents attacked the leftists and other protesters with stones. The police used several rounds of teargas and flash grenades," a police official said.

A Reuters witness said police arrested at least one protester.

An estimated half a million illegal immigrants and asylum seekers live in the Mediterranean state of about 11 million inhabitants, many of them in Athens, and an increasing share of those trying to reach the EU come in through Greece.

A survey conducted by the Alco polling group for weekly newspaper Thema showed on Saturday that 73 percent of respondents back the plan to build a 12.5 km fence at the border with Turkey.
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