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Monday, June 29, 2009
`Virtual' Border Fence in Southern Arizona Nearing Completion
Associated Press
TUCSON — The first stretch of the federal government's new "virtual" border fence is nearing completion in southern Arizona.
Border Patrol Agent Mario Escalante said nine towers holding cameras and sensors should be completed by the end of July and up and running soon after that.
The towers' equipment can detect attempts to enter the country illegally from Mexico from more than six miles away. The first batch is being built along 23 miles of the Mexican border near Sasabe, Ariz. The area is a well-used smuggling route.
The government plans to construct towers along all but small parts of the nearly 2,000-mile frontier within five years.
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