Monday, April 30, 2007

Virtual Means It Ain't A Fence.

A high-tech "virtual wall" will detect more than 95 percent of illegal crossings at the busiest jumping-off point along the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Border Patrol chief said Thursday.

"We will be able to identify, detect and classify more than 95 percent of illegal entries with the virtual wall," Aguilar said.

"Will detect"? "Able to identify, detect and classify"? Give me a good pair of binoculars, some shade and a bottle of water and I could stand out all day an "identify, detect and classify" illegal immigrants. How this translates into stopping them I'm sort of unsure.

Is it border enforcement or bird watching.

One of the main attributes recognized in a "fence" is its non-virtualness.... i.e. it should actually exist.

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