Sorry Mexicans :(

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It’s going to get somewhat more difficult for illegal Mexican immigrants to come across the border. Unless they’re super fast mice, I suppose.

testpagecrossingborder.thumbnail Sorry Mexicans :(

A 28-mile “virtual fence” that will use radars and surveillance cameras to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced approval of the fence on Friday. The fence, built by the Boeing Co., uses technology the government plans to extend to other areas of the Arizona border, as well as to sections of Texas. The projects could get under way as early as this summer, said department spokeswoman Laura Keehner.

The virtual fence is part of a national plan to secure the southwest border with physical barriers and high-tech detection capabilities intended to stop illegal immigrants on foot and drug smugglers in vehicles. As of Thursday, 302 miles of fencing had been constructed.

Chertoff said the virtual fence already is working.

See if I were the government, I’d probably have electrified barbed wire and robots that throw burritos into the air then explode in whomever’s hands they land in. It’d be fairly extravagant and also poetic. Don’t see the poetry in it? Come on man. BURRITOS. EXPLODING. Jesus, do I have to draw a roadmap for you?

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