American Republic Online

Well it was Oct 26, 2006 President Bush signed into law a fence for 700 of the 2000 miles of southern border:

“Within about three years, we should have about 370 miles,” said [Senator] Kyl, whose state would be virtually sealed from Mexico through fencing and other barriers.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Ralph Basham said the fence could take many forms, from chain link to solid wall, depending on where it is placed. The shape will be determined with the help of Boeing Co., which was awarded a $67 million contract to install a high-tech “virtual fence” along 28 miles in Arizona. - Washington Post (10/27/06)

18 months later, how’s that 370 miles coming? Half way would be 185 miles of fence, Senator. Senator?  Most recently the virtual fence has been deemed an utter failure who’s “design will not be used as the basis for future developments”.  Yeah it’s not even worth building on for a virtual fence version 2.  Oh and I like how now that it failed it only cost tax payers $20M not the true $67M.  Sounds better when you only mention the construction costs and not the $47M of “other costs”.

Seriously when are we going to learn from the Israelis and just use the trusty chain link, ditches & barbed wire?

• $20M ‘fence’ scrapped for not catching enough illegals