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House Panel Unhappy With SBInet Progress

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Friday, September 18th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) effort to develop and deploy a virtual fence to aid in deterring and preventing illegal immigration has little to show so far and deployment goals may still be out of reach, Democrats and Republicans on a House panel that oversees border security said yesterday. Despite receiving assurances that the initial deployments of the technology portion of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) were supposed to be operating in two areas of Arizona…

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