SUNK COST

U.S. Cancels Virtual Border Fence

Mexico divide deemed too expensive.

At least we know when to cut our losses. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has canceled the controversial “virtual border fence,” deeming the high-cost and over-schedule program to be too ineffective to justify the $1 billion it has already cost taxpayers. "There is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution to meet our border technology needs,” Napolitano said in declaring the high-tech Secure Border Initiative-network, which covers 53 miles of the 2,000-mile border, to be effectively over. The Border Patrol is already more staffed than it has been in its 86-year history, and Napolitano said, the border would be secured through mobile and tower-based surveillance, drones and thermal-imaging devices.