$20 million virtual fence shut down after two months
A $20 million virtual fence on the US-Mexico border has been shut down after two months for failing to work.
From the AP (via Google News):
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.
The human smuggling market in Mexico is estimated at $7.5 billion.
