according to a report by the gao, the government accountability office, just three months later the department of homeland security said by the end of 2009 the entire northern and southern western borders of the u.s., a total of 6,000 miles would be covered by the fence. late in 2008 that projection was scaled back, forgetting about the northern border for a while and the new goal was to have 656 miles of the southern border completed by mid2011. here s what has been accomplished to date. a handful of cameras in the great lakes area and two small sections totalling 53 miles. 53 miles of virtual fence in arizona and even that is said to be not working all that well. one problem, the sensors have been known apparently to have been thrown off by things like tumbleweeds. president bush started the program in 2006 but the reported 90% of illegal immigrants who decide to cross the border succeeding, building a better border security system has long been and still is a political brass ring. l
great lakes area and two small sections totalling 53 miles. 53 miles of virtual fence in arizona and even that is said to be not working all that well. one problem, the sensors have been known apparently to have been thrown off by things like tumbleweeds. president bush started the program in 2006 but the reported 90% of illegal immigrants who decide to cross the border succeeding, building a better border security system has long been and still is a political brass ring. listen. we must not and we will not surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. we will make it tougher for illegal aliens to get into our country. we re going to create a virtual fence that employs motion detectors and infrared cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles to detect and prevent illegal crossings. what i m telling su that we re going to have a border that is smart and secure. what we re looking to build is a virtual fence, a 21st century virtual fence. we v
and the new goal was to have 656 miles of the southern border completed by mid2011. here s what has been accomplished to date. a handful of cameras in the great lakes area and two small sections totalling 53 miles. 53 miles of virtual fence in arizona and even that is said to be not working all that well. one problem, the sensors have been known apparently to have been thrown off by things like tumbleweeds. as we said, president bush started the program back in 2006 but with a reported 90% of illegal immigrants who decide to cross the border eventually succeeding, building a better border security system has long been and still is a political brass ring. listen. we must not and we will not surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. we will make it tougher for illegal aliens to get into our country. we re going to create a virtual fence that employs motion detectors and infrared cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles to detect and prevent
one problem, the sensors have been known apparently to have been thrown off by things like tumbleweeds. as we said, president bush started the program back in 2006 but with a reported 90% of illegal immigrants who decide to cross the border actually eventually succeeding, building a better border security system has long been and still is a political brass ring. listen. we must not and we will not surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. we will make it tougher for illegal aliens to get into our country. we re going to create a virtual fence that employs motion detectors and infrared cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles to detect and prevent illegal crossings. what i m telling you is that we re going to have a border that is smart and secure. what we re looking to build is a virtual fence, a 21st century virtual fence. we ve got to have stronger border surveillance and security. that is probably going to be more of a combination
as we said, president bush started the program back in 2006 but with a reported 90% of illegal immigrants who decide to cross the border eventually succeeding, building a better border security system has long been and still is a political brass ring. listen. we must not and we will not surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. we will make it tougher for illegal aliens to get into our country. we re going to create a virtual fence that employs motion detectors and infrared cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles to detect and prevent illegal crossings. what i m telling you is that we re going to have a border that is smart and secure. what we re looking to build is a virtual fence, a 21st century virtual fence. we ve got to have stronger border surveillance and security. that is probably going to be more of a combination of virtual borders, virtual patrols. well, that was then-candidate obama on the campaign trail. so why has the