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Homeland Security Cancels Plans For Virtual Fence Along Arizona-Mexico Border | Homeland Security Cancels Plans For Virtual Fence Along Arizona-Mexico Border |
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April 23, 2008 The government will replace its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border with new towers, radars, cameras and computer software, scrapping the brand-new $20 million system because it doesn’t work sufficiently, officials said. The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff officially accepted the completed fence from The Boeing Co. With the decision, Customs and Border Protection officials are acknowledging that the pilot program to detect illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border doesn’t work well enough to keep or to continue tweaking.
Chertoff accepted the program on Feb. 22 after Boeing apparently resolved software glitches. But less than a week later, 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. DHS will put in about 17 new towers, some holding just communications gear, others featuring new cameras or new radars, at an undetermined cost. READ MORE Sphere: Related ContentComments (2)
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"The government will replace its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border with new towers, radars, cameras and computer software, scrapping the brand-new $20 million system because it doesn't work sufficiently." officials said.
However, the controversial anti-illegal immigration group, run by American patriot Glenn Spencer has installed thermal specialized cameras himself. That can detect the images of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing our non-existent border. All for a price tag of $100.000 dollars contributed by people like you and me. With the assistance of volunteers he has set-up his own virtual fence of specialized equipment. That avid citizens on the internet can do their own scrutiny of illegal movement throughout many locations. They in turn can report the drug smugglers, coyotes ushering slave immigrants and even the likelihood of terrorist incursions. Using state of the art equipment regular citizens can observe and report from the comfort of their own fireside chair. This hard-boiled Sovereignty advocate said" "You're watching the border from a hotel in Tucson!" American Border Patrol president and founder Glenn Spencer told a handful of reporters in a room at the Marriott near downtown on Tuesday. "You could be in Omaha, you could be in Bangkok!" Volunteers can watch and control a $100,000 camera system over the internet. "We have them all over the country," he said. They can search for people crossing the border. "Here's the thermal vision," he said, as the view changed to show what was hot and what was not, which illustrated that the system worked even at night. "The volunteers across America, saving us hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the taxpayers would certainly like that!" he said. Those interested in volunteering should study his website at www.americanpatrol.com Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), who is behind a critical piece of legislation (H.R. 4987) that would restore the original double-layered fence mandate that was gutted by the Democratic hierarchy in the Senate months ago, bowing to special interest groups. Demand from your Democratic representative they co-author Rep.Jones (H.R. 4987) U.S. population has grown by more than 100 million people since the first Earth Day in 1970. The Census Bureau projects that U.S. population will grow another 135 million people to reach 435 million by the year 2050. More than 80% of that growth will be directly attributable to immigration. Keep calling your Congressmen today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-224-3121 AND REGISTER YOUR OUTRAGE at ongoing efforts to keep our country from enforcing its immigration laws! Please copy and paste and distribute freely. report abuse
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