Shift in Border Security
Mar 17th, 2010 by David Anderson
The virtual fence just is not up to the real thing. The Washington Times caught this nugget.
Signaling a major shift from her predecessor, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Tuesday said she will spend $50 million of stimulus funds originally intended to build a “virtual fence” along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border on other more proven and cost-effective security technology.
The decision to pull back funding on the initiative aimed at protecting the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and illegal immigrants comes on the heels of a series of damning reports by the Government Accountability Office, and as Ms. Napolitano attempts to justify to lawmakers a 30 percent budget reduction for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the midst of a raging drug war along the Southwest border.
To date, the U.S. government, through the Secure Border Initiative, has paid Boeing Co. more than $1 billion to build less than 700 miles of barriers between ports of entry, and a costly but flawed system of radar towers, ground sensors and cameras known as SBInet, a $4 billion project that appears to be in jeopardy.
Wait! Do my eyes decieve me? Did the Homeland Security Secretary actually may a choice that might help secure our country? Well I guess that remains to be seen. It still doesn’t look like we are going to get a real fence, but at least it looks like some of the money is going to be spent on tools that work.
Maybe I am a little slow but I just realized that if you rearange the letters in SBInet you get a more accurate name… IBSnet.
Most of Los Angeles already is Mexico- a welfare state with drug-gangs, teenage pregnancy, dope addiction, loss of businesses (except fast-food and pawn shops), ludicrously high dropout rates, unsafe streets, violent schools, filthy neighborhoods and virtually no English spoken.
Look west for America’s future.
Mexico is a failed state, ruled by a failed culture of corruption. The best thing for them, would be for us to seal the border. Let the pot boil over, let the peasants revolt, let their oligarchy feel some pain (richest man in the world is now a Mexican of Lebanese descent). We must stop acting like the pressure-release that prevents any meaningful “change” in Mexico. Its absurd really, a nation that blessed with natural resources and climate, to be the utter basketcase that it is. Perhaps if they were founded by Anglo-Saxons, instead of siesta-seeking Spaniards, they would be better off today…just saying.