CAMPO, Calif.—Jim Wood doesn't think the U.S. government is adequately guarding the border with Mexico here. So he has taken on the job himself. While the federal government fumbles with mishaps and delays in the so-called virtual fence—a network of cameras, sensors and radar that has cost more than $600 million—Mr. Wood is installing his own surveillance system with equipment from Fry's Electronics and eBay. On the Fence View Slideshow Brian L. Frank for The Wall Street Journal Minuteman Jim "Woody" Wood and his dog Molly stood at the U.S./Mexico border in Campo, Calif. More photos and interactive graphics The decision by the Department of Homeland Security to freeze funding for the federal project this week only intensified his sense of mission. "As a nonprofit, we're far more efficient than them," he said. The 45-year-old Web developer has set up 20 cameras at a private ranch here, 50 miles east of San Diego. He wants to eventually over the roughly 2,000 miles from Texas to California.[Read more...]