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Entire US-Mexico border to be guarded by Predator drones

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Posted by tipper 2010-08-31 12:48|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 All SIX of them? Gee whiz, etc.

Posted by mojo 2010-08-31 13:41|| 2010-08-31 13:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Drones do not matter when you aren't going to do anything to the people they spot.

You need a barrier system to make it so difficult that most people stop trying, border observation and enforcement to gather up those that do persist and repatriate them to the far SOUTH of Mexico, and internal enforcement to make employment of illegals costly enough to where the jobs dry up.

Nothing else will be effective.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-08-31 13:50|| 2010-08-31 13:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Entire US-Mexico border to be monitored by Predator drones

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-08-31 13:51|| 2010-08-31 13:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, if the predators fire Hellfires at people crossing the border, it works for me.

Posted by Silentbrick 2010-08-31 14:59|| 2010-08-31 14:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Entire US-Mexico border to be monitored by Predator drones

Meanwhile somewhere at Homeland Security HQ:

"There goes some ..."
"There goes some more ..."
"Another 10 crossing the border ..."
"Yep"
"Eight more ..."
"Yep"

Posted by DMFD 2010-08-31 18:12|| 2010-08-31 18:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Watch our feckless leadership award the Predator monitoring and analytics contract to a California based, disadvantaged, minority contractor.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-31 18:19|| 2010-08-31 18:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I was out in Dulzura, San Diego east county today, looking for the site for a replacement bridge supporting the reservoir flume from Barrett Lake to Otay Lake. Apparently my F-150 (drink up!) looked unfamiliar on the flume dirt roads. Three Border Patrol contacts in an hour. All nice, friendly, and polite. Of course, I had ID and construction plans with me....but they were out in force today

Posted by Frank G 2010-08-31 18:41|| 2010-08-31 18:41|| Front Page Top

#8 but they were out in force today

It's almost 9/11, Frsnk. Everyone is on alert, even civilians.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-08-31 19:59|| 2010-08-31 19:59|| Front Page Top

#9 It's almost 9/11, Frsnk.

Sorry, Frank. So much for my vaunted touch-typing superpower. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2010-08-31 20:01|| 2010-08-31 20:01|| Front Page Top

#10 I've been called worse...by close family. A mulligan for TW

Posted by Frank G 2010-08-31 20:10|| 2010-08-31 20:10|| Front Page Top

#11 The Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) fly MQ-9 Reapers, not MQ-1 Predators. There may be some confusion because General Atomics still calls them Predator B. The CBP bought them without weapons capability although it could be installed relatively quickly. The Texas Air Guard is getting MQ-1B Predators, but they fly overseas, not on the Texas border.

Posted by rwv 2010-08-31 21:15|| 2010-08-31 21:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile somewhere at Homeland Security HQ:

"There goes some ..."

Quick, send ACORN to get them registered to vote!

Posted by Glenmore 2010-08-31 22:58|| 2010-08-31 22:58|| Front Page Top

#13 We are not firing Hellfire missiles at populous areas of the US-Mexican border. If all you are looking for is recon there are, as rwv pointed out, cheaper alternatives to the Predator.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2010-08-31 23:21|| 2010-08-31 23:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey Frank G - I was a Copper out there for many years. In the early 80's when I was a rookie, if you took some dirt roads south off SR-94, after a couple miles you would come across a 2 foot tall concrete marker. It said "Mexico" on the north side and "USA" on the south of it. That was all the warning you got out there. The dirt road just continued on south. I'd make a U-turn and get the hell back north.

Posted by retired LEO 2010-08-31 23:52|| 2010-08-31 23:52|| Front Page Top

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