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Continued from Daily Feature -- May 21, 2008
Beyond playing word games, DHS is also playing design games. As we reported in March, fencing along the border near Naco Arizona is short and easily climbed. Last week Jack Ladd reported that since installation of a fence along the entire ten-mile length of his ranch along the border, the Border Patrol has apprehended more than 900 illegal aliens near his ranch home. (Remember, this is the same place where Simcox claimed his stock fence stopped 60% of border crossers.)
Vehicle barriers are designed to stop vehicles, presumably those carrying drugs. However, it is a simple matter to drive a vehicle up to the vehicle barrier, carry the drugs over or through it and load them onto another vehicle north of the border. This seems to be exactly what happened recently near Lukeville, Arizona, the site of DHS's longest vehicle barrier (70 miles).
DHS has to know if you stop people you stop drugs and terrorists. And the American People need to know the truth about border security and what kind of system is being installed to protect them. American Border Patrol has this information, but people like the New York Times and CNN prefer to get their information about border security from DHS. "We have raw survey data that can be used to verify that our reports are accurate, however we have never been asked to provide it to any major news organization," said Glenn Spencer of ABP. Spencer said the American People have the right to the truth but there exists a blackout of news from ABP's aerial border survey data.
In closing, the NY Times says the following:
"Meanwhile, groups opposing illegal immigration are also protesting the fence construction — in their case, because of unhappiness with its slow progress. A new group in Tucson called Techno Patriots has set up several thermal imaging cameras at the border to watch for illegal crossers by laptop computer from their homes."
As far as I know, Techno Patriots has no cameras on the border and no thermal cameras. In fact, the last I heard its only camera wasn't working. Techno Patriots was established two years after American Border Patrol launched its first Internet controlled border surveillance camera system. ABP's system is up and functioning quite well with many apprehensions to its credit.
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