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Old 01-14-2011, 03:49 PM
 
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President Barack Obama's administration on Friday canceled the troubled "virtual fence" project that was meant to better guard stretches of the U.S. border with Mexico and will replace it with other security measures.
The project, begun in 2006 and run by Boeing Co, has cost about $1 billion and was meant to pull together video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies to catch illegal immigrants and smugglers trying to cross the porous border.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said commercially available surveillance systems, unmanned aerial drones, thermal imaging and other equipment will be used instead, key suggestions made by critics of the Boeing SBInet program.
U.S. to end "virtual fence" project on Mexican border - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110114/us_nm/us_usa_security_fence_5;_ylc=X3oDMTEwZXJiM2NkBF9TA zIwMjM4Mjc1MjQEZW1haWxJZAMxMjk1MDM4ODg4 - broken link)

 
Old 01-14-2011, 03:51 PM
 
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U.S. to end "virtual fence" project on Mexican border - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110114/us_nm/us_usa_security_fence_5;_ylc=X3oDMTEwZXJiM2NkBF9TA zIwMjM4Mjc1MjQEZW1haWxJZAMxMjk1MDM4ODg4 - broken link)
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