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U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Agents began using the virtual fence last December, and the towers have resulted in more than 3,000 apprehensions since, said Greg Giddens, executive director of the SBI program office in Washington. But that's just a fraction of the several hundred il.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 28, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surv.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 10, 2007 @ 10:05am mrmdc

SF Gate -- The cost of building and maintaining a double set of steel fences along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border could be five to 25 times greater than congressional leaders forecast last year, or as much as $49 billion over the expected 25-year life span of t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 2:31am neoform

NPR -- A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence betw.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- A 28-mile “virtual fence” that will use radars and surveillance cameras to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday was to announce approval of t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

USA Today -- The battered ribbon of carbon-steel and wire-mesh fencing has divided much of this city from Mexico for more than a decade. It helped inspire the Bush administration's plans for more than 700 miles of new fencing along the porous, 2,100-mile southwestern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

USA Today -- Technical issues are delaying the completion of a multibillion-dollar high-tech fence intended to reduce illegal entry along the nation's southern border, the government said Thursday. Some lawmakers are questioning why Boeing Co., the lead contractor,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 12:44pm neoform

USA Today -- Storms with high winds rushed across four states Thursday, spawning tornadoes in Tennessee and Illinois and tossing a patrol car over a 3-foot-high fence in Indiana. At least seven people were injured. A sheriff's detective was following a funnel cloud.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Storms with high winds rushed across three states Thursday, spawning tornadoes in Tennessee and Illinois and tossing a patrol car over a 3-foot-high fence in Indiana. At least seven people were injured. The sheriff's detective was following a funnel cl.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 27, 2006 @ 8:29am neoform

www.axcessnews.com -- President Bush signed into law the Secure Fence Act of 2006 at a White House ceremony Thursday morning after GOP lawmakers sat on the bill for weeks. The bill calls for some 700 miles of new fencing along America's Mexican boarder and is estimated to co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 26, 2006 @ 8:18pm neoform

FOX News -- President Bush signed into law Thursday a broad measure that calls for fencing a third of the 2,100-mile border between the United States and Mexico... Read More