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Watching The Border: The Virtual Fence -- CBS News
Steve Kroft Reports on The High-Tech Project That Is Supposed to Secure The U.S.-Mexican Border.
(CBS) Terrorism and homeland security have been back in the news the past few weeks, and once again the focus has been on intelligence failures and airport security. But the easiest way for terrorists to get into the United States may well be across the nation's porous 2,000 mile border with Mexico. And it is no secret.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations have revealed that hundreds of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and countries associated with terrorism have entered the country through Mexico, and according to a study done for the Border Patrol, around 90 percent of the people who try to get in that way eventually make it.
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My Comment: It sure is not securing the border right now .... but this is probably the direction that border security is heading. I just wish there was a cheaper way of doing it.
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