Thursday, December 22, 2011

More Drones Flying Over The U.S. - Mexico Border Are Planned

Unmanned drones are patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in larger numbers in an effort to crack down on illegal immigrants.

More Predator Drones Fly U.S.-Mexico Border -- Washington Post

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. — In the dead of night, from a trailer humming with surveillance monitors, a pilot for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was remotely flying a Predator drone more than 1,000 miles away.

From an altitude of 15,000 feet, over the desert ranchlands of Arizona, the drone’s all-seeing eyeball swiveled and powerful night-vision infrared cameras zeroed in on a pickup truck rattling along a washboard road.

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My Comment: You will still need boots on the ground .... but those boots are disappearing.

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