Posted on 03/10/2010 1:38:27 PM PST by pissant
A cell phone application that will help illegal immigrants find water and key landmarks as they cross into the United States is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds and an irresponsible use of technology, critics say.
The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), the brainchild of three faculty members at the University of California-San Diego and a colleague at the University of Michigan, is a software application that can be installed into a GPS-enabled cell phone. In addition to helping immigrants locate water and landmarks, it also could alert them to Border Patrol checkpoints. And to make the trek a little less arduous, it also plays recorded poetry.
“I don’t think it’s an appropriate use of technology,” U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., told FoxNews.com. “If other governments did this and tried to tell people ways to sneak into the U.S., I’m sure the Department of Defense would take issue with that. But because American universities are doing it, there’s not a whole lot of outcry about it.”
Hunter said he found the project to be a poor use of taxpayer money, particularly doing a recession.
Joe Kasper, Hunter’s spokesman, accused the universities of “functioning as a platform” for a system that could potentially help human smugglers and illegal immigrants enter the United States.
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Agreed. This is treasonous. The perpetrators should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting.
Why not give bankrobbers the combination to the vault, so while they break the law, it will be easier for them to "navigate".....
I’m in favor of this... because then members of the armed militia, who are to protect against invasion, can stake out these places and ambush the invaders.
Good point
Aiding and abetting a felony is a crime in all 50 states. Arrest these perps.
No need to. Just plant landmines on the border and we save millions of dollars and Border Guard lives.
Give the app to the border cops and they’ll know just where to corral the illegals.
Shouldn't the acronym for a Transborder Immigrant Tool be TIT? It would make more sense since it seems to have been invented by boobs.
I trust the poem that's being broadcast is The Wasteland.
Could this app be modified to lead them to the border patrol? Would make policing the border that much easier.
Agreed. Like most stupid criminals, let them do something foolish to get themselves caught. I think the combination of criminal, GPS coordinates, and unmanned/fully armed predator flying overhead is a good thing. As to the part about the ‘service’ providing poetry to keep them entertained - I’d suggest using recorded Obama speaches instead. It would put them to sleep and then the INS would spend less time having to chase.
On the creators of this new service... enabling illegal aliens to come here illegally doesn’t sound like a lawful activity to me. I don’t care what left wing philosophy they have - it sound like a crime would be committed.
No problem. Get the same app, go out in the desert and move the supply caches.
Good question. I did hear that the T.I.T would be sold in pairs. That an upgrade to boost signal through some sort of silicon injection was also available.
I am glad you clarified that for me ;)
Couldn’t the same technology be used to lure them into capture points or kill zones?
When I read “transborder immigrant tool” I wondered which one they meant. We have so many of them serving in the legislature.
Careful! A long while ago I had a FReepmail from a moderator stating that I could be suspended for advocating mining the border!
Ok thanks. Sorry mods, when I meant landmines, I meant cheesburgers..
:)
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