Quiet Demise of the Virtual Fence

In this month’s Policy Beat, Migration Policy Institute’s Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the termination of the Secure Border Initiative Network, the status of the USCIS Transformation project, and more.  In January, the Obama administration put an end to a costly program to build a “virtual fence” along the southwest border of the United States. The move, which comes after several years of continued political support for the program despite major setbacks in its implementation, garnered little press and political attention.

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