{"id":14033,"date":"2017-04-25T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:52:07","slug":"reminder-we-already-tried-a-virtual-wall-it-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/04\/25\/reminder-we-already-tried-a-virtual-wall-it-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: We Already Tried a Virtual Wall. It Failed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word began to trickle out yesterday that President Donald Trump was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-4-25-2017#2\" target=\"_blank\">backing down<\/a> on his demand that any spending bill to keep the government open for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2017 must include funding for a southwest border wall. However, Trump made it clear that he is not giving up on his plan to get Congress to fund the wall, only that he is willing to push off funding until the FY 2018 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s assurances that the wall is still a priority, Democrats and Republicans in Congress seized on the uncertainty to resuscitate an idea synonymous with non-enforcement and failure\u2014a so-called \u201cvirtual wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some chatter on CapHill that Trump could agree to border security provisions like blimps, fences motion detectors &amp; call it a &quot;wall&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadPergram\/status\/856650970910134272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While it remains every pro-amnesty lawmaker\u2019s favorite \u201cenforcement first\u201d mechanism, we already tried a \u201cvirtual wall\u201d and it didn\u2019t work. Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2010\/03\/napolitano-halts-mexico-fence-plan-034528\" target=\"_blank\">the following<\/a> from 2010:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has put the brakes on SBInet, the $3 billion plan to build a virtual fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only do we have an obligation to secure our borders, we have a responsibility to do so in the most cost-effective way possible,\u201d Napolitano said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cThe system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border known as SBInet has been plagued with cost overruns and missed deadlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, Napolitano is withholding funding for the program\u2019s first deployment until a review she ordered in January is finished. And she\u2019s taking away $50 million in stimulus funds from the Boeing-managed program. Instead, that funding will be put toward \u201cother tested, commercially available security technology along the Southwest border.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though the \u201cvirtual wall\u201d became a government boondoggle that did nothing to increase border security, there is still a place for technology on the border. Systems such as sensors, drones, and blimps can be extremely effective when deployed as part of a comprehensive border security strategy. 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However, Trump made it clear that he is not giving up on his plan to<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/04\/25\/reminder-we-already-tried-a-virtual-wall-it-failed\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":5704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5,548,1478],"tags":[1550,1551],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18809,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions\/18809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}