U.S. Takes Steps to Tighten Mexican Border

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. Takes Steps to Tighten Mexican Border
By ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published: March 16, 2004


PHOENIX, March 15 — Federal officials have become increasingly worried about a surge in violence and instability along the Arizona-Mexico border and will begin what they describe as a major air and ground initiative to help keep out illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and possibly terrorists, officials said on Monday.

The $10 million plan, to be announced on Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security, will include the first use of unmanned aircraft for border patrol, the addition of several hundred agents and the creation of seven tent complexes to detain illegal border crossers.
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But some human rights and immigrants' advocates believe that broader economic and political changes — rather than a law enforcement crackdown — are the answer.
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Moreover, the unmanned aircraft face technical and safety hurdles. A report in January by the Congressional Research Service said that drones, as the aircraft are commonly known, offer several attractive features for border patrol work and can identify "a potentially hostile target the size of a milk carton at an altitude of 60,000 feet." But their use is also hindered by accident rates more than 100 times that of manned aircraft, according to the report.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/national/16BORD.html
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[underpants]

1. How would a milk carton get up to 60,000 feet?

And what hostile activity could it be doing?

:bounce: Sorry I couldn't let that one pass.

[madrchsod]

2. well they disrupted

the drug routes thru haiti now the drugs are being routed again thru the southern border. good thinking on the part of the bush klan. also all those armed groups of ranchers and their nazi buddies will be out there target practicing,hell those guys are building their own spy planes!