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| Border cam: Texas to stream live video over the Net |
| 2007-11-19 |
| Gov. Rick Perry's proposal to broadcast live video footage from the border over the Internet should be up and running again by January now that new funding has been secured, a spokesman said. Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said the governor has found $3 million in federal grants to install about 200 mobile cameras along the Texas-Mexico border. The cameras were pitched during Perry's 2006 re-election campaign as a way for anyone via the Internet to become a border patroller and help root out border crime and illegal crossings. A $200,000 test run that lasted about a month last year led authorities to 10 undocumented immigrants, one drug deal and one human smuggling route. But earlier this year, lawmakers rejected Perry's request for $5 million to restart the program and add more cameras. "Lawmakers felt unanimous that immigration is a federal issue," said state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso. "Why burden local and state taxpayers with a federal obligation?" Castle said the new cameras will be installed in "strategic high-traffic areas along the border." The system should be running by January, although it may be longer before the footage is available online, she added. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #3 Oh, great! Now we can watch illegals cross into our country in real time. And I thought they were running out of ideas for new reality TV shows. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-11-19 22:28 |
| #2 When are they adding Huntsville gurney cam? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-11-19 19:07 |
| #1 As long as they don't display border patrol positions and patterns, it could be a useful tool for both voter education/persuasion and law enforcement. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-11-19 02:33 |