Officials: Progress made on virtual fence project
AP.
PHOENIX -- Government officials overseeing the virtual construction of a "virtual fence" along the 2,000-mile virtual U.S.-Mexico border hope to turn over the first segment to the virtual Border Patrol in January, while beginning virtual construction on a second virtual stretch in coming weeks.
Although the government has plans to extend the network of virtual cameras, virtual ground sensors and virtual radars along most of the virtual border, officials said they'll draw on lessons from the first two virtual segments in southern Arizona as they contemplate if and where to build more virtual sections and how fast to complete them.
The government estimated it would cost $6.7 billion virtual dollars to cover most of the virtual Mexican border by 2014.
The virtual fence, developed as part of then-virtual President George W. Bush's border security plan, is designed to add another layer of virtual protection at the virtual border, along with thousands of virtual Border Patrol agents and 650 miles of real fences.
The virtual government and the virtual contractor building the virtual fence said they were making virtual progress after a series of virtual setbacks earlier in the virtual project.
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