http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62F61T20100316
U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence
The U.S. government is pulling $50 million in funding from a problematic "virtual fence" meant to secure stretches of the Mexico border and is freezing additional funding for the project pending review, authorities said on Tuesday.
But not before
spending over $1 billion of taxpayers' dollars on a failed system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border
