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It looks like the virtual fence that was built and was touted, as an effective way to reduce illegal immigration in Arizona, is not working as good as expected. About 3000 illegals have being detained because of this virtual fence, but hundreds and maybe thousands cross the border daily. This fence is supposed to use electronic devices to warn border patrol agents when there are illegals coming across. The bottom line, it was scrapped.

 

Here is the article:

 

Feds Scrap $20 Million 'Virtual Fence'

By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN,

AP

Posted: 2008-04-23 12:28:22

Filed Under: Business News, Nation News

TUCSON, Ariz. (April 24) - The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said.

The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced his approval of the fence built by The Boeing Co. The fence consists of nine electronic surveillance towers along a 28-mile section of border southwest of Tucson.

Boeing is to replace the so-called Project 28 prototype with a series of towers equipped with communications systems, new cameras and new radar capability, officials said.

Less than a week after Chertoff accepted Project 28 on Feb. 22, the Government Accountability Office told Congress it "did not fully meet user needs and the project's design will not be used as the basis for future" developments.

A glaring shortcoming of the project was the time lag between the electronic detection of movement along the border and the transmission of a camera image to agents patrolling the area, the GAO reported.

Although the fence continues to operate, it hasn't come close to meeting the Border Patrol's goals, said Kelly Good, deputy director of the Secure Border Initiative program office in Washington.

"Probably not to the level that Border Patrol agents on the ground thought that they were going to get. So it didn't meet their expectations."

The Border Patrol had little input in designing the prototype but will have more say in the final version, officials said.

Agents began using the virtual fence last December, and the towers have resulted in more than 3,000 apprehensions since, said Greg Giddens, executive director of the SBI program office in Washington.

But that's just a fraction of the several hundred illegal immigrants believed to cross the border daily near southwest of Tucson.

The virtual fence is part of a national plan to use physical barriers and high-tech detection capabilities to secure the Mexican border - and eventually the Canadian boundary.

Boeing was awarded an $860 million contract to provide the technology, physical fences and vehicle barriers.

"Boeing has delivered a system that the Border Patrol currently is operating 24 hours a day," Boeing spokeswoman Deborah Bosick said. She declined further comment.

Project 28 was not intended to be the final, state-of-the-art system for catching illegal immigrants, Giddens said. "I think some people understood that and some didn't. We didn't communicate that well."

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2008-04-23 06:38:43

 

 

What are the causess of this scarcity?

Number one: The United States has exported more wheat and rice than we consumed for decades.

Number two: Farmers are no longer growing as much soy, rice, or wheat in order to receive subsidies to plant corn for ethanol.

Number three: Skyrocketing prices of gas because we (the United States) do not control the price of crude oil, OPEC does. In addition, fuel excise taxes add to the price of the gallon of refined gas.

Why are food prices soaring? Even though “common sense is not so common anymore”^TM here it goes: IT IS COMMON SENSE.

When you pay farmers to grow corn to be used for ethanol, other farmers will want to partake of the money giveaway. So other crops will not be grown, thus producing scarcity of those grains. Scarcity rises prices. So the price of corn will skyrocket because it is being sold primarilly for fuel, thus, there is barelly any left for food, and animal feed.

Rising fuel prices are passed down to the user. So, since food is transported in trucks, the cost of the fuel to transport food, will eventually be passed to the consumer. That is one of the reasons of the recent rise in food prices.

Recently, hunger and food scarcity has propelled people to riot on the streets of many nations.

Now, for th first time in decades, some stores are rationing the sale of food here at home.

How can we fix the problem?

Again, it is a matter of common sense. Senator McCain proposed to eliminate fuel taxes between Memorial Day and Labor Day, this would lower the price of gas at least for a few months thus stimulating our economy.

Next, allow to drill for oil in Alaska and the Dakotas. This alone would scare OPEC to lower the price, since once we establish a constant supply of our own crude oil, we will not need to import as much from the OPEC Cartel. They will actually loose money, thus having to lower the price of their crude in order to increase the demand. In English, that means that is good for us.

And the action that would lower the price of food, stop using corn to produce Ethanol. Find another way to produce bio fuels. Use our land to plant food crops, stop paying farmers not to harvest the land.

These three actions would lower the price of fuel, ower the price of food, and energize our economy, and no, I DO NOT WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. I am just a THINKING AMERICAN.

 

 

Hillary Clinton then, and now... thanks to the Jed Report.

Watch closely when he scratces his chin...

Parental discretion advised... Strong language.

“To know what we are going to do, look at what we have done.” Hillary Clinton 2008

Yeap, I agree with her.

To know what Obama is going to do, look at his past.

1. He attended several meetings and conferences organized with known anti Semite/pro Palestinians.
2. He befriends with a self confessed home grown terrorist, who also confesses that it is not outside the realm of possibilities to go back to his old ways, and that he still wishes he would have done more.
3. He accepts a “bitter” hypocrite who exploits his own people for personal gain as friend and pastor.
4. And quite a few other minor things that gives us a peak into the man’s heart.

To know Hillary, just look at her past.

1.      She was fired for dishonesty, lying, questionable ethics, and attempting to violate the constitutional rights of the individual for personal gain.

John McCain has his own long list of “mistakes” but among those, there is one thing that sticks in my mind.

1.      He comes from a lineage of heroes, and his children follow so far in his footsteps. That tells me about the man’s character and honor.

Which do you prefer to have as President? Choose wisely.

Sean Hannity made a great point today.

If William Ayres was a guy who had gone around bombing abortion clinics, instead of police stations and the Pentagon, will he be accepted as a valued member of his and Obama’s community?

Most definitely not.

So now we have a guy that, on purpose, placed bombs in police stations and government buildings (I think society calls those FREAKING TERRORISTS), that confesses to placing bombs that injured people, and because the statute of limitations had expired, he is allowed to become a professor, a socialite, and a friend of the candidate for President.

Senator Obama, just because you were seven years old when this piece of garbage, that you call an acquaintance, was placing bombs, if he still thinks that he did not do enough damage, and has not discarded the possibility of doing it again (his words, not mine), why have not you condemned his believes and words?

Just because the vents happen forty years ago, if the individual was never punished for his misdeeds, and still wants to do more, does not mean that the guy is harmless.

I pray that the FBI or the buddies of the No Such Agency are keeping tabs.

Quotting Scott Ott from his blog ScrappleFace.com: ‘Darth’ Cheney to Hillary: ‘I Am Your Father’ by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · 80 Comments (2007-09-20) — Vice President Dick Cheney, responding to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s reference to him as “Darth Vader,” this morning addressed the Democrat presidential hopeful saying: “Hillary, I am your father.” “Before I turned to what you call ‘the dark side’,” Mr. Cheney explained, “I was once like you, Sen. Clinton. I had hopes and dreams that good could triumph over evil through the force of government regulation. But then my eyes were opened to the true source of power — freedom — and my lust for that power has driven me since that day.” Mr. Cheney said he would try to persuade Sen. Clinton to cross over to his side, but that “ultimately, the only way for freedom to prevail is for its opponents to be defeated.” A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said the senator “would never turn, but would continue to use the force of government to protect people from the evils of capitalism, the dangers of liberty, and the devastating consequences of a rigid interpretation of the Constitution.”