Arizona 'virtual fence' gets final OK

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - A 28-mile "virtual fence" that will use radars and surveillance cameras to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday was to announce approval of the fence, built by the Boeing Co. and using technology the Bush administration plans to extend to other areas of the Arizona border, as well as sections of Texas. These projects could get under way as early as this summer, officials said.

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The government paid Boeing $15 million of its initial $20 million contract before determining that there were glitches in the test project. The department gave a conditional acceptance in December.

Lawmakers have been skeptical of the product Boeing delivered.

"This is not the end of the Project 28 story," Rep. Christopher Carney, D-Pa., said in a statement Thursday. "We need to understand what went wrong with Project 28 to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated and taxpayer dollars are not squandered."



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[Ian David]

1. Now, we only have to fit all the brown people with those battery-powered collars!

[soothsayer]

2. Next step---lasers that target them

[DaveJ]

3. They say it's working.

Out of about a million immigrants per year, they caught 28 people a few weeks ago at the cost of $20 million. Way to go!

[Javaman]

4. Nothing but yet another money making scheme by moron* and his

crony friends.

[DaveJ]

5. Cons are pro free market except when it applies to them...

To be fair, though, when they talk about capitalism they barely understand what that means.

I'm glad that some engineers are making money, even if it is by ripping off the public.

Then again, the engineering might be outsourced, with some dumbass executive who can't make it in the free market scooping up the profit.

[Hugin]

6. Has anyone asked the Chinese how their 'Great Wall' worked out?

It would be a good data point to have.