By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The fate of the once-touted virtual fence designed to protect the Southwest border along Mexico is in doubt. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she was freezing additional funding and work on the uncompleted virtual fence that was supposed to stretch across 2,000 miles of border. She…
Protecting the U.S.- Mexican border has always been a challenge. And this this is only adding to the challenge. By Jeffrey Anderson The Washington Times WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar “virtual fence” along the southwestern border promised for completion in 2009 to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants…
The government should have had this up by 2008. Will its latest effort succeed? We shall see. By Brady McCombs Arizona Daily Star TUCSON –Homeland Security hopes to begin construction next month on the latest version of its much-maligned and costly “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border. More than two years have passed and more…
