Thread: AZ-Contractors Set to Break Ground on 'Virtual Fence'

Contractors Set to Break Ground on 'Virtual Fence' Along Border Next Week
Friday, May 08, 2009

David Sanders



A 98-foot 'virtual fence' tower laden with radar, sensors and sophisticated cameras west of Arivaca, Ariz.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Groundbreaking will begin next week in southern Arizona for the virtual fence project's first permanent detection towers, a spokeswoman in Washington said Friday.

Contractors preparing sites for the towers "will start moving earth next week," Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Jenny Burke said.

The towers will hold sensors, cameras and communications equipment designed to detect illegal immigrants and drug smugglers and to enhance the ability of Border Patrol agents to intercept and apprehend them.

The towers are to be built first in Arizona, the busiest corridor for illegal entries along the Mexican frontier over the past decade. Plans call for also placing such towers along most of the 2,000-mile Mexican border, in New Mexico, California and almost all of Texas within five years.

But within the next few weeks, Burke said, officials with the Secure Border Initiative have to assure that problems that came up with various components during systems testing have been resolved.

"The Department of Homeland Security has to give approval before we hang sensors on the towers," she said.

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"There were some issues that cropped up during systems testing qualifications. SBI believes that they have been fixed," and will seek to provide assurance of that during the next couple of weeks, Burke said.

The first permanent towers will encompass a total of 53 miles of the Arizona border in two chunks southwest of Tucson. One will replace a prototype temporary virtual fence near Sasabe.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519582,00.html

What you are looking at folks is Obama's ticket to Amnesty. I can hear the sales pitch from way over here. Yes, the latest and greatest innovation in border security! These gadgets or whatever they are might be able to detect WMDs coming accross the border, but's that's all it will be used for. It won't be used to detect illegal entrants into this country, It will never be run in that mode. These virtual spies are nothing but BAIT AND SWITCH ON A STICK and Obama will use these towers to try and convince us that our borders are secure in order to bring on CIR.

Sensors and cameras aren't going to work and don't let this project fool you either. They are NOT going to stop an invasion that is by design geared to undermine our culture and freedom in an effort to form the NAU.

Their motto is 'anything for cheap labor', even if it means sacrificing American lives. I can hear them now..We must compete with China, or we will be up a creek------Bull shi_ all the way across the universe

Only a Duncan Hunter styled double-layered fence manned to the teeth will stop this invasion by design..something the will NEVER do, so don't let them or this silly project fool any of you.