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Offline thundley4

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'Virtual fence' gets second chance on border
« on: March 11, 2009, 12:16:48 PM »
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WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department is accelerating plans to build a costly and long-troubled "virtual fence" of sensors and cameras along the U.S.-Mexican border, aided by $100 million from the economic stimulus package.
The government already has spent $600 million and built a failed prototype of the high-tech network that would be used by border agents to try to catch illegal immigrants and drug runners.

A 28-mile test patch built in Arizona over the past two years had so many problems that it was scrapped. The department is now embarking on what its officials and members of Congress are calling a "do-over" on the same land near Tucson and another along 30 miles in Ajo, Ariz.
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I'm really surprised that they are going forward with this plan under 0Bama.  The serious flaw in this plan, is how to get those collars on all the Mexicans.  :rotf:
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Re: 'Virtual fence' gets second chance on border
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2009, 12:19:55 PM »
It will do a nice job of keeping out virtual illegal aliens.
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Re: 'Virtual fence' gets second chance on border
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2009, 01:28:58 PM »
It's a remarkably stupid idea...extremely capital intensive and requiring more enforcement assets than are available or forecast to run down any intruders, who have no particular barrier issues to even slow them down.  Like a MagLev train, this can be made to work on a twenty-mile test, but only through the combustion of large piles of cash to fuel it, but on a large scale would cost about 75% of the GDP to actually work.
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Re: 'Virtual fence' gets second chance on border
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 01:40:45 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on March 11, 2009, 01:28:58 PM
It's a remarkably stupid idea...extremely capital intensive and requiring more enforcement assets than are available or forecast to run down any intruders, who have no particular barrier issues to even slow them down.  Like a MagLev train, this can be made to work on a twenty-mile test, but only through the combustion of large piles of cash to fuel it, but on a large scale would cost about 75% of the GDP to actually work.

A minefield would be cheaper, and considerably more effective......

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Re: 'Virtual fence' gets second chance on border
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2009, 02:32:26 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on March 11, 2009, 01:40:45 PM
A minefield would be cheaper, and considerably more effective......

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+1 bud, besides, we need fat coyotes, I heard they are starving down there..
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Re: 'Virtual fence' gets second chance on border
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2009, 04:00:50 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on March 11, 2009, 12:19:55 PM
It will do a nice job of keeping out virtual illegal aliens.
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I'm kinda curious actually, as to how the 'roaches plan to keep the illegals from stripping the "virtual fence" of all copper and electronic components for recycling in Phoenix?
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Re: 'Virtual fence' gets second chance on border
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2009, 04:29:54 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on March 11, 2009, 04:00:50 PM
I'm kinda curious actually, as to how the 'roaches plan to keep the illegals from stripping the "virtual fence" of all copper and electronic components for recycling in Phoenix?

Just one of a dozen obvious holes in this boat.
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