After supporting construction of a fence on the 1,947-mile border with Mexico as the junior senator from Illinios, President Barack Obama has cut funding for the construction of pedestrian fencing and vehicle barriers.

Obama’s budget does however include money for construction of a virtual fence along the border. The first towers holding sensors, cameras and communications equipment will go up along Arizona’s border with our southern neighbor.

Officials estimate that the program should have all of the border covered, with the exception of an area in Big Bend National Park in Texas, by 2014.