Friday, January 14, 2011

Obama administration ends high-tech border fence

A Border Patrol vehicle drives past a portion of the border fence in El Paso, Texas, in 2007. The Obama administration on Friday ended a high-tech southern border fence plan that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion. The Obama administration on Friday ended a high-tech southern border fence scheme that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion but did little to improve security. Congress ordered the high-tech fence in 2006 amid a clamor over the porous border, but the project yielded only 53 miles of protection.


Source: msnbc.com: More politics

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