I knew the legislation was already there for the “fence/wall” .. what I want to know is:
What has to happen to have the funds to actually build it ..??
Anybody know ..??
Bush chose not to build it. Instead his administration spent 1 billion on a contract with Boeing to build a “virtual” fence covering only 53 miles of the 2000 mile border. It was an abysmal failure and too expensive to ever cover the entire border. It wasted time during the last 3 years of his administration when the money could have been used to construct a physical barrier, that would still exist, over many more miles of the border.
The virtual fence was nothing more than a delaying action by an open borders administration that didn’t want to build a real barrier. It was also a great example of crony capitalism with Boeing lapping up $1 billion of taxpayer dollars for a bunch of overpriced high tech equipment incapable of accomplishing the mission.
The Obama administration rightly canceled the virtual fence in 2011.
Another George W. Bush failure. Had he spent the billion dollars on a physical wall there would be hundreds of miles of protected border in place. Instead, the national debt is $1 billion higher and we have nothing to show for it other than higher profits for Boeing. It would be interesting to examine how many Bush staffers working on this failed venture got jobs with Boeing after Bush left office.