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September 18, 2009

Audit: Border Fence to Cost $6.5B
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A new government audit claims the program to radically increase
electronic surveillance along the US border with Mexico is years behind
schedule and has run billions of dollars over initial projections. The
Government Accountability Office says the network of cameras, radars and
fences won’t be completed until 2016, instead of the initial plan for
later this year. Auditors also say the border system will cost an
additional $6.5 billion in maintenance costs, with no mechanisms to
gauge its actual impact.



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