Virtual Border Fence To Hit Texas.

PimpinTurtle, May 10, 2008 - “Sections of Texas’ border with Mexico eventually could be secured by the same kind of high-tech ‘virtual fence’ that’s been deployed in Arizona, key legislators said Friday after touring the state-of-the-art surveillance network. The comments by two subcommittee chairmen with the House Homeland Security Committee — Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, and Christopher Carney, D-Pa.— followed an inspection tour Friday of the $20.6 million virtual fence near Sasabe, Ariz. The project links high-tech surveillance towers, cameras, radar, ground sensors and unmanned aerial drones along a 28-mile section of the 1,947-mile international border.” Read more.