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<h3>Congressman: Time to go high-tech to secure borders</h3>
Rep. Tancredo wants to use military personnel, surveillance technology along perimeter of U.S.
Posted: August 24, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jon Dougherty
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28716)
A GOP lawmaker is advocating the extensive use of high-tech military surveillance tools to secure the borders with Canada and Mexico after witnessing the technology in action first- hand.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., just returned from a three-day fact-finding trip near Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, where he observed a border-control exercise involving the use of about 100 Marines and "first-generation" aerial surveillance technology used by the United States during the 1991 Gulf War.
"We were using the military to conduct border surveillance," Tancredo said, describing the activity that involved the Marines working in tandem with Forest Service, Border Patrol and U.S. Customs Service personnel.
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The Bush administration, however, is opposed to deploying the military along the border.
Tancredo says "Vietnam syndrome" is preventing Congress from adequately protecting the nation's borders, which, he says, are just as porous in the north as in the south.
"We send people to fight, but we really don't have the will to win," said Tancredo, head of the House Immigration Reform Caucus.
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After the Idaho trip, Tancredo says he knows the U.S. has the technology to get the job done.
"Maybe we can't make it completely secure, but we can make it at least 90 percent, and I'll take that," he said. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I'd settle for 90% also, but if the Bush administration is against securing the borders I don't expect much to be accomplished. The flood of illegals will continue until the numbers of illegals becomes staggering.
<h3>Congressman: Time to go high-tech to secure borders</h3>
Rep. Tancredo wants to use military personnel, surveillance technology along perimeter of U.S.
Posted: August 24, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jon Dougherty
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28716)
A GOP lawmaker is advocating the extensive use of high-tech military surveillance tools to secure the borders with Canada and Mexico after witnessing the technology in action first- hand.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., just returned from a three-day fact-finding trip near Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, where he observed a border-control exercise involving the use of about 100 Marines and "first-generation" aerial surveillance technology used by the United States during the 1991 Gulf War.
"We were using the military to conduct border surveillance," Tancredo said, describing the activity that involved the Marines working in tandem with Forest Service, Border Patrol and U.S. Customs Service personnel.
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The Bush administration, however, is opposed to deploying the military along the border.
Tancredo says "Vietnam syndrome" is preventing Congress from adequately protecting the nation's borders, which, he says, are just as porous in the north as in the south.
"We send people to fight, but we really don't have the will to win," said Tancredo, head of the House Immigration Reform Caucus.
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After the Idaho trip, Tancredo says he knows the U.S. has the technology to get the job done.
"Maybe we can't make it completely secure, but we can make it at least 90 percent, and I'll take that," he said. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I'd settle for 90% also, but if the Bush administration is against securing the borders I don't expect much to be accomplished. The flood of illegals will continue until the numbers of illegals becomes staggering.