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U.S. Retooling High-Tech Barrier After 28-Mile Pilot Project Fails

The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surveillance gear, federal officials said yesterday.

Technical problems discovered in a 28-mile pilot project south of Tucson prompted the change in plans, Department of Homeland Security officials and congressional auditors told a House subcommittee.

Though the department took over that initial stretch Friday from Boeing, authorities confirmed that Project 28, the initial deployment of the Secure Border Initiative network, did not work as planned or meet the needs of the U.S. Border Patrol.

The announcement marked a major setback for what President Bush in May 2006 called “the most technologically advanced border security initiative in American history.” The virtual fence was to be a key component of his proposed overhaul of U.S. immigration policies, which died last year in the Senate.

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SideBear by Jim Mc: The Bush Administration is really committed to border security,,,,,, doo dah, doo dah.

We can knock a satellite doing 17000 mph out of space, but this “technology” has us completely flummoxed, and will require 3 more years!

They must be training-up some illegals to string spools of rope down there.

Looks like Geraldo Rivera is editing this shameless book of absurd excuses for them.