News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

High-tech fence on border 'looks good,' House told

Sean Holstege
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 14, 2008 12:00 AM

One week after visiting Arizona, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that a long-troubled high-tech virtual fence along the border near Sasabe now "looks good."

The 28-mile network of sensors and cameras, which sends live data to border agents, had been plagued by technical malfunctions since contractor Boeing Corp. began work. The glitches postponed the fence's planned introduction last June.

But Chertoff told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that the government has conditionally accepted the $20 million job and that his team is conducting final reviews of the work. The committee has a hearing set for Feb. 27 on the project's status

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