APNewsBreak: US approves virtual fence on border, saves $2 million (euro1.4 million)

The U.S. government has approved a 28-mile (45-kilometer) virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to catch people illegally entering the country. The Bush administration plans to use some of the technology in other parts of Arizona and in Texas.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is to announce the acceptance Friday.

Last year the government withheld some of the payment to contractor Boeing Co., because the technology the company used in the test project near Tucson, Arizona, did not work properly. Boeing also was late in delivering the final product. Because of this, the department received a $2 million (euro1.4 million) credit from …