Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Border fence plagued by glitches, long delays

The project is not working..

An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a "virtual fence" of cameras, ground sensors and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays.

Having spent $672 million so far with little to show for

The worst that happens is that we have a system which gives us some value but we conclude that it's not worth buying any more of it," said Mark Borkowski, the government's director of the project at U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Click on the following for more details:  Daily Herald | Border fence plagued by glitches, long delays

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