The Cost of a Border Fence?
The following was presented on the November 16, 2006, edition of CNNs Lou Dobbs Tonight. DOBBS: Your Homeland Security Department at work again. It turns out a new virtual fence that’s been proposed along the U.S.- Mexican border could cost actually 15 times more than originally projected, that according to the Homeland Security Department. The cost of that virtual fence, which excites a lot of people who don’t want to have real border security well, the cost of electronic monitoring, as it turns out, along the border, originally estimated at $2 billion. Well, it turns out the true cost, or at least as the truth is now available, could be anywhere between $8 billion and $30 billion for a virtual fence. The first part of that program is planned for a 28-mile stretch of the border near Tucson. It’s being — the contractor on that is Boeing, and that little 28-mile deal cost about $2 billion. It is due to be completed in June and, yes, that part is funded. [End of Lou Dobbs segment.] If t
