Posted on 05/08/2009 3:37:08 PM PDT by La Lydia
TUCSON - Groundbreaking will begin next week in southern Arizona for the virtual fence project's first permanent detection towers, a spokeswoman in Washington said Friday. Contractors preparing sites for the towers "will start moving earth next week," Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Jenny Burke said.
The towers will hold sensors, cameras and communications equipment designed to detect illegal immigrants and drug smugglers and to enhance the ability of Border Patrol agents to intercept and apprehend them.
The towers are to be built first in Arizona, the busiest corridor for illegal entries along the Mexican frontier over the past decade. Plans call for also placing such towers along most of the 2,000-mile Mexican border, in New Mexico, California and almost all of Texas within five years....
The first permanent towers will encompass a total of 53 miles of the Arizona border in two chunks southwest of Tucson. One will replace a prototype temporary virtual fence near Sasabe.
(Excerpt) Read more at brownsvilleherald.com ...
Interesting.
From a guy I know that works in the FAA here in DC (I do liaison work for a couple of small companies), I seem to recall last year or so he mentioned there were waiver issues regarding employment of the Predator here in US airspace. Only know what he told me. Perhaps I misunderstood.
Oh, hope your wife found the guilty parties, well, “guilty.”
She did. Well, they did.
:-)
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