>> Boeing contends that the prototype was just a
>> demonstration model and that the company didn’t
>> effectively shape the government’s expectations.

So, they demonstrated that they -can- construct towers. That's quite a demonstration! And "effectively shape the government's expectations" is apparently a euphemism for "ensure that they have no expectations for success". :p Would Boeing crash a prototype plane before a bunch of investors and then claim that they didn't "effectively shape the investors' expectations"

america is just building their mini version of great wall of china...which already been proven thousands of years ago that it DOES NOT WORK!.

So, would this be the same Boeing who were mentioned in the corruption trial of a major Pentagon procurement officer and who recently lost out in the bidding process to build new USAF airtankers (and then filed a protest with Washington in a bid to get the decision overturned)?

And the only respose to his failure is a one sentence comment from a spokesperson that basically said "well, we delivered a system that works 24 hrs a day" - irrespective of whether it does the job or not.

"The government will replace its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border with new towers, radars, cameras and computer software, scrapping the brand-new $20 million system because it doesn't work sufficiently." officials said.

However, the controversial anti-illegal immigration group, run by American patriot Glenn Spencer has installed thermal specialized cameras himself. That can detect the images of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing our non-existent border. All for a price tag of $100.000 dollars contributed by people like you and me. With the assistance of volunteers he has set-up his own virtual fence of specialized equipment. That avid citizens on the internet can do their own scrutiny of illegal movement throughout many locations. They in turn can report the drug smugglers, coyotes ushering slave immigrants and even the likelihood of terrorist incursions. Using state of the art equipment regular citizens can observe and report from the comfort of their own fireside chair.
This hard-boiled Sovereignty advocate said" "You're watching the border from a hotel in Tucson!" American Border Patrol president and founder Glenn Spencer told a handful of reporters in a room at the Marriott near downtown on Tuesday. "You could be in Omaha, you could be in Bangkok!"

Volunteers can watch and control a $100,000 camera system over the internet.

"We have them all over the country," he said.

They can search for people crossing the border.

"Here's the thermal vision," he said, as the view changed to show what was hot and what was not, which illustrated that the system worked even at night.

"The volunteers across America, saving us hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the taxpayers would certainly like that!" he said.

Those interested in volunteering should study his website at www.americanpatrol.com

Rep. Walter Jones
(R-NC), who is behind a critical piece of legislation (H.R. 4987)
that would restore the original double-layered fence mandate
that was gutted by the Democratic hierarchy in the Senate months ago, bowing to special interest groups. Demand from your Democratic representative they co-auther Rep.Jones (H.R. 4987)

The idea of going to iraq, and sending only only a few troops abroad. Nothing will get done. It was a PR joke. Sorry

So this is Boings Prototype. Ok Boing, giving the enemy our secrets. When you guy finish the real virtual fence, you'll have "Border resiliant crossing Mexicans"

Yes, but does it protect against virtual Mexicans?

When Bush retires to his ranch in Crawford Texas will he have a vitual fence protecting his home or armed secret service agents?

How about armed national guard protecting US borders instead of Iraq's borders.

Immigration has direct massive negative consequences on today's and yesterdays economy.
Are you now living from paycheck to paycheck, wondering how your going to feed your family, making your mortgage payment.
You need to be aware of how much Uncle Sam is secretly skimming off your taxes and diverting into government freebies
for immigrants and illegal foreign nationals.

This is a document that should disturb you, because the globalist open border, free traders do not want you to see it. This is an thoroughly researched analysis of immigration costs, that the hierarchy of the U.S. government and special interests groups do not want you to read.

Now you can read the disturbing details in the new 70-page document called “The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration” by Edwin S. Rubenstein (www.eagleforum.org/sources). A Manhattan Institute adjunct academic with a mile-long scholarly resume, he has been doing financial analysis ever since he directed the studies of government waste for the Grace Commission of 1984.

Did you know that taxpayers are supporting immigrants to the tune of $9.000 each. That means your subsidizing each family of four with $36.000.

More than 37 million immigrants in the United States, both legal and illegal, cost the federal government more than $346 billion last year, twice as much as the nation's fiscal deficit, according to a report released yesterday. The loss estimates, the report said, included $100 billion in federal taxes lost "from the reduction of native incomes caused by immigrant workers." He also stated that even programs that are not usually associated with immigration, he said, have actually added financial burdens to the taxpayers.

Our students are short-changed in overcrowded classrooms, because teachers must spend more time with illegal immigrant children.

The financial burden immigrants inflict on education starts with the 3.8 million K-12 students enrolled in more-expensive classes for the non-English-speaking. When we add up the costs of hiring specialized teachers, training regular teachers, student identification and assessment, and administration costs, the total amounts to an estimated $1,030 per pupil, or $3.9 billion. Of the 48.4 million public school children, pre-K through 12th grade, 9.2 million or 19 percent are immigrants or the children of immigrants. In the next few years, immigration will account for almost all the increase in public school spending.

Look at the $1.5 billion cost of incarcerating 267,000 criminal aliens in federal prisons. That's not the worst of it; prison capacity is limited, so 80,000 to 100,000 other criminal aliens have been prematurely released to prowl our streets. Then their is the expenditure to hunt down 676,847 fugitive warrants by (ICE) and special agents. Actual cost for incarcerating illegal foreign nationals since 2001, over $1,407.798.965 dollars.

The Manhattan Institute report includes all sorts of costs that pundits conveniently ignore, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. EITC gives an average cash payment of $1,700 per year to 25 percent of immigrant households.

The emergency medical treatment given 'gratis' to illegal immigrants is another enormous cost, causing many border state hospitals and emergency rooms to close. Emergency means any complaint from morning sickness to athlete’s foot, gunshot wounds to AIDS.Even after some restrictions were imposed in 1996, 24.2 percent of immigrant households still receive Medicaid, whereas the figure for native-born Americans is 14.8 percent.The stiudy calculates that Hispanics account for 19.2 percent of Medicaid enrollment, while they are 13.7 percent of the U.S. population.

This is just the tip of the iceberg about these outrageous costs.

Please go to (www.eagleforum.org/sources) and know what your taxes are paying for...?

the only way it can work is if the system controls drones like those in Terminator and start shoot to kill on site....that will stop anyone once and for all. By the time the system calls the border petro... which are over worked and under manned...
forget it.
It was never the wall not good, it was not enough guards.

Providing that you didn't copy and paste your article, then I'd have to make a quick comment on the medicade/care part.

What happens when a mexican wanted to become a us citizen, but ended up having a child/ or is terminally sick.
Yes, they want to keep their free heathcare.
As a result, they never become a Us citizen, and don't have to pay taxes, or serve in a draft, etc
They're the smart ones!