>> 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. >> while the obama administration initially embraced the virtual fence this past march it suspended new work which had already been scaled down in size. the plan known as the secure border initiative was pitched as the big fix in border security. it was going to be a high tech system that would all but stop illegal immigration. you heard president bush talking about it. boeing got the contract to build it, a huge contract. but more than four years and almost $1 billion of your money later, here's what we have to show for the money. a handful of cameras and two small sections along arizona's southern border totalling, wait for it, 53 miles. that's right 53 miles of virtual fence and even that has problems. the censors have been known to be thrown off by things like tumbleweeds, rain.