The Department of Homeland Security spent $20 million on a "virtual fence" to better secure 28 miles of the Arizona-Mexican border but has no way to measure its effectiveness and never consulted with the field agents who will use the system before it was installed, two House subcommittees learned today. Full Story »
Posted by Paul Hyland
I believe that this reporter was concealing a bias. There was a lot of emphasis on the "cost of the whole fence" which says to me that the reporter supports the concept of a fence, or of preventing illegal immigration using such law enforcement means, uncritically accepting the premise behind the policy but questioning this implementation. This fence seems to me as more of a proof of concept before you would even try to go further, but it's a pretty expensive proof of concept, mostly to show "doing something" rather than attempting to solve the problem (if it is a problem).
