Government Waives Regulations Impeding Border Fence
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - The U.S government waived environmental and other regulations that it said on Tuesday threatened to delay completion of nearly 500 miles of a planned barrier fence along the border with Mexico.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who has chafed at obstacles to the controversial barrier project, issued the waivers for stretches of land in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The fence is intended to deter illegal crossings by immigrants, drug runners and others.
Keehner said the department remains on track to completing the planned 670 miles (1,080 km) of fencing by the end of this year. Some 309 miles (497 km) of the fence have already been built.
It seems that Republican or Democrat our political class has mastered the art of telling the people what they want to hear and hoping they won't notice. Whats more they seem to be contradicted both strongly and recently.
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Meanwhile, a 28-mile test section of "virtual fencing" in Arizona _ a complex network of cameras, radars and sensors deployed on towers along the border _ recently was criticized by the Government Accountability Office, a watchdog arm of Congress.
The pilot project "resulted in a product that did not fully meet user needs," Richard Stana, a GAO official, told a House subcommittee last month. He also said the project's design "will not be used as the basis" for future development of virtual fences and that deployment would be delayed up to three years.
But back to the original question if 300 miles of fence have been built why aren't the illegals and drug dealers being stopped.
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