Government scraps prototype fence on Mexican border

[proud2BlibKansan]

Government scraps prototype fence on Mexican border

US scraps $20 million prototype of virtual fence on Arizona-Mexico border; plans replacement

ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
AP News

Apr 23, 2008 00:44 EST

The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said.

The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced his approval of the fence built by The Boeing Co. The fence consists of nine electronic surveillance towers along a 28-mile section of border southwest of Tucson.

Boeing is to replace the so-called Project 28 prototype with a series of towers equipped with communications systems, new cameras and new radar capability, officials said.

Less than a week after Chertoff accepted Project 28 on Feb. 22, the Government Accountability Office told Congress it "did not fully meet user needs and the project's design will not be used as the basis for future" developments.

A glaring shortcoming of the project was the time lag between the electronic detection of movement along the border and the transmission of a camera image to agents patrolling the area, the GAO reported.

more . . . http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Government_scraps_prototype_fence_o_04232008.html

See, they should have just let the minutemen build it.

http://www.mnforsustain.org/immg_minutemen.mp3

[madeline_con]

1. Gimme some water!

'Cause I scrapped a fence on the Mexican border! :headbang:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Here ya go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGy6jxYZeE

[samdogmom]

2. My eyes are rolling all around in my head. Gee...go figure!

What about this original plan was a good idea?


Just another boondoggle! I'm not surprised.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Loved this part:

A glaring shortcoming of the project was the time lag between the electronic detection of movement along the border and the transmission of a camera image to agents patrolling the area, the GAO reported.


:rofl:

[madeline_con]

5. Yep! glaring!

B-)

[madeline_con]

6. Somewhere, a Republican got paid.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. No doubt

I also think they were pandering to the anti immigrationists, who were pretty loud when this fence was proposed.

[ThomWV]

8. 5,000 mile border, 7,000 miles of fence, and nobody so much as slowed down crossing over.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. They really should have gone with the minutemen's version

It kept Mexican cattle out of the US.