Obama administration is going to shut down problematic “virtual fence” designed to guard parts of the U.S. border with Mexico. The project, being run by Boeing Co involving video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies was supposed to catch smugglers trying to cross the porous border. Bennie Thompson, the senior Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee said, “The SBInet program has been a grave and expensive disappointment since its inception.”

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