Thread: Government approves first "virtual" border fence

Government approves first "virtual" border fence

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is giving the thumbs up to a 28-mile "virtual" fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.

The U.S. is hoping to catch people illegally sneaking over the border with a system of radar and surveillance cameras. The Bush administration is also planning to install the technology in Texas and other parts of Arizona.

The techno-fence, known as Project 28, includes 98-foot unmanned surveillance towers equipped with radar, sensors and cameras that can tell a person from a cow 10 miles away. Software glitches had gotten in the way, but Boeing has since smoothed things out. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff plans to announce his approval of the project tomorrow.

It's part of a broader plan to shore up the leaky Southwest border with physical barriers and technology.

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Related to this. both Obama and Hillary support a "virtual" (i.e., meaningless) fence as opposed to a real fence, and both support amnesty:

Both agreed, on the topic of illegal immigrants, that high-tech surveillance measures were preferable to construction of a border fence to curtail illegal immigration, and on the need for a path to citizenship for workers.

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