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Bush Should've Just Asked the Chinese...

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:46 pm
by Tudamorf
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110115/ap_ ... tual_fence
Obama administration ends high-tech border fence

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Friday ended a high-tech border fence project that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion but did little to improve security. Congress ordered the high-tech fence along the border with Mexico in 2006 amid a clamor over the porous border, but it yielded only 53 miles of protection.

Although it has been well known that the virtual fence project would be dumped, Napolitano officially informed key members of Congress Friday that an "independent, quantitative, science-based review made clear" the fence, known as SBInet, "cannot meet its original objective of providing a single, integrated border security technology solution."

The fence, initiated in 2005, was to be a network of cameras, ground sensors and radars that would be used to spot incursions or problems and decide where to deploy Border Patrol agents. It was supposed to be keeping watch over most of this nation's southern border with Mexico by this year.

Instead, taxpayers ended up with about 53 miles of operational "virtual fence" in Arizona for a cost of at least $15 million a mile, according to testimony in previous congressional hearings.

DHS and Boeing officials have said that the project called for putting together the first of its kind "virtual fence" too quickly by combining off-the-shelf components that weren't designed to be linked

Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, top Democrat of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the committee held 11 congressional hearings on the fence project and commissioned five reports by the Government Accountability Office, which blasted the project. Thompson, who chaired the committee until Republicans took over the House this month, called the project a grave and expensive disappointment.
...because they could've told him: walls don't work.

But I'm glad the supposedly budget-conscious "Republicans" wasted $1 billion of our tax dollars on a fence to nowhere that does little more than to blight the environment, and to put money into some executives' pockets.

Clearly this means we need more tax cuts, and more fences to keep out those funny-sounding brown men.

Re: Bush Should've Just Asked the Chinese...

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:38 am
by Fyyr
I think we all know how China deals with immigrants from its southern border.

They shoot them.

Is that what you meant?

Re: Bush Should've Just Asked the Chinese...

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:17 pm
by Tudamorf
Fyyr wrote:I think we all know how China deals with immigrants from its southern border.

They shoot them.

Is that what you meant?
No need, we already have paramilitary neo-Nazis armed with assault rifles patrolling our borders.

Boy, do I feel safe.