{"id":1096,"date":"2007-10-30T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2007-10-30T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T19:41:39","slug":"see-the-much-hyped-and-overpriced-border-fence-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/see-the-much-hyped-and-overpriced-border-fence-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"See the much hyped (and overpriced) border fence in Arizona!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photo Of The Day <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October 30, 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpatrol.com\/ABP\/PHOTO-OF-THE-DAY\/2007\/071030.html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanborderpatrol.com\/\">American Border Patrol<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aerial photo of section of new fence near Sasabe, Arizona. According to a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d08131t.pdf\"> recent GAO report<\/a>, this fencing costs $4.8 million per mile to construct. &#8220;I certainly hope this isn&#8217;t all they are building,&#8221; said Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol, &#8220;because at nearly five million dollars a mile, if this is all there is, this contract would have to be mostly profit.&#8221; American Border Patrol is presently preparing a comprehensive report on border infrastructure development in the past year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>more on the nearly a fence &#8211; fence  <strong>BONUS<\/strong>! NPR on the effects of a real fence.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning\/features\/2006\/apr\/borderfence\/triplefence200.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php%3FstoryId%3D5323928&#038;h=150&#038;w=200&#038;sz=14&#038;hl=en&#038;start=4&#038;tbnid=Tsono6QauBZ0ZM:&#038;tbnh=78&#038;tbnw=104&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dsan%2Bdiego%2Bfence%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX\"> HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CNS News Service<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Software glitches delay virtual border fence<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to establish a 28-mile digital fence along the U.S. border with Mexico are four months behind schedule, according to a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office. &#8212; Project 28, a $20 million project to secure 28 miles of the Arizona border with radar&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/virtual_border_fence\/2007\/10\/30\/45069.html\">MORE&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Of The Day October 30, 2007 American Border Patrol Aerial photo of section of new fence near Sasabe, Arizona. According to a recent GAO report, this fencing costs $4.8 million per mile to construct. &#8220;I certainly hope this isn&#8217;t all they are building,&#8221; said Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol, &#8220;because at nearly five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}