Thread: To Congress: Border Fence is a Failure

Dear Senator XXXXXXXX

President Obama promised that before tackling the issue of immigration reform our border would be secured. This has not happened and is very far from being accomplished. The highly touted "electronic border fence" has failed, according to the Department of Homeland Security:

"It was a great idea, but it didn't work," said Mark Borkowski, executive director of the electronic fence program at the Homeland Security Department.

"One of the kickers was that these radars had too many problems with clutter," Borkowski said. "Wind moving a tree shows up on the radar. And if you have too much of that, how do you find the person in the clutter? Same with cameras. The image is blurry."

The problems have prompted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to order a department-wide assessment of the technology project once billed as the capstone to the controversial 2,000-mile combined physical and electronic border fence.

She even says that they should consider other means of border control. Yet the White House and Congress have dramatically reduced funding for other means of border control.

This means that our border is still unprotected. This means that any sort of "comprehensive immigration reform" or Amnesty for illegal aliens CAN NOT proceed. The Obama Administration has made this promise to the American people. Without border security that actually works it is meaningless to seek an amnesty for illegal aliens, because even more will be encouraged to enter.

Please stop all discussions of comprehensive immigration reform since the DHS can not certify that border control is operable.

Sincerely,

XXXXXXX

Exactly! It's a shame about the virtual border fence technology because I know we have it, so it was a globalist scam to get the money without delivering the product to the people and Boeing should have to pay the money back. The physical border fence however I think is working well and helping our border patrol to do their job. It needs to be a double fence with a road in-between the two, I think that works the best. Then we should just hire ADT to put their motion sensors on the fence and wire it up.

Judy wrote:

It needs to be a double fence with a road in-between the two, I think that works the best.

As called for by the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

"AN ACT

To establish operational control over the international land and maritime borders of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Secure Fence Act of 2006â€

Yes, that one, MW! We should make Boeing pay back the money they wasted on the "virtual fence" and use it to pay for finishing our Secure Fence on the SW Border according to US law and any extensions required to stop illegal immigration.

Another promise soon to be broken! This one dealing with our own national security!

Originally Posted by Judy

Yes, that one, MW! We should make Boeing pay back the money they wasted on the "virtual fence" and use it to pay for finishing our Secure Fence on the SW Border according to US law and any extensions required to stop illegal immigration.

Boeing is famous for fleecing the taxpayers. I worked on a Boeing office building that they claimed had received extensive water damage due to an earthquake---but it seemed that their own heating system had caused most of the damage. At the same time, there was a report that the Defense Department was seeking $100 million damages for overbilling from Boeing.

Boeing is just trying to get more money from the US government.

Originally Posted by Captainron

Another promise soon to be broken! This one dealing with our own national security!

Originally Posted by Judy

Yes, that one, MW! We should make Boeing pay back the money they wasted on the "virtual fence" and use it to pay for finishing our Secure Fence on the SW Border according to US law and any extensions required to stop illegal immigration.

Boeing is famous for fleecing the taxpayers. I worked on a Boeing office building that they claimed had received extensive water damage due to an earthquake---but it seemed that their own heating system had caused most of the damage. At the same time, there was a report that the Defense Department was seeking $100 million damages for overbilling from Boeing.

Boeing is just trying to get more money from the US government.

Exactly.