Posted on 08/16/2010 8:43:56 PM PDT by lbryce
Last year, UC San Diego art professor Ricardo Dominguez spearheaded a project to help illegal immigrants. He and his team equipped GPS-enabled mobile phones with border-specific information that would provide people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a way to find water and, ergo, to continue living. In order to fund the development of the app, called the Transborder Immigrant Tool, Dominguez applied for, and was awarded, a grant by his institution, the University of California at San Diego.
Funding the TBT to the tune of $5,000, apparently, enfuriated some SoCal high and mighties, including Congressman Duncan Hunter, who believed the project broke the law. An investigation was launched.
Last month the investigation concluded, finding Dominguez innocent of inappropriate use of the grant funding.
Stayin' Alive To create something that will keep illegal immigrants alive strikes me as a lot like, say a needle exchange. The primary purpose of the latter is not to help junkies get high, it's to keep brothers and sisters and grandfathers and cousins from dying. In the same way, whether the TBT helps anyone get across the border or not, it's primary purpose is, or should be, to reduce the number of exposure deaths in the United States. The number of illegal immigrants dying annually on the crossing has almost doubled, according to the General Accounting Office, from 266 in 1985 to 472 in 2005. These deaths, in addition to depriving us of fellow humans, also cost the governments - federal, state and local - quite a bit of money. Complaining about the TBT is, it seems to me, to miss the forest for the trees. In fairness, though, the program doesn't just help find water and safe routes. It also helps users avoid the Border Patrol. At that point, it moves from purely humanitarian to political.
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Here, my fellow Freepers is the sort of convoluted, deluded, misguided thought process,the depth in which Moonbat mindthink has metasized in a way that can never be reversed.
My favorite line is that of how The Transborder Immigrant Tool,helps prevent depriving us of fellow human beings. (Who gave them such a disitnction?
No sense of criminality, illegality enters into their thought process, conciousness. >It is too mind-blogging to laugh at the idea of people espousng such crap creating devices designed to violate Federal Law.
To create something that will keep illegal immigrants alive strikes me as a lot like, say a needle exchange. The primary purpose of the latter is not to help junkies get high, it's to keep brothers and sisters and grandfathers and cousins from dying. In the same way, whether the TBT helps anyone get across the border or not, it's primary purpose is, or should be, to reduce the number of exposure deaths in the United States. The number of illegal immigrants dying annually on the crossing has almost doubled, according to the General Accounting Office, from 266 in 1985 to 472 in 2005. These deaths, in addition to depriving us of fellow humans, also cost the governments - federal, state and local - quite a bit of money. Complaining about the TBT is, it seems to me, to miss the forest for the trees. In fairness, though, the program doesn't just help find water and safe routes. It also helps users avoid the Border Patrol. At that point, it moves from purely humanitarian to political.
Actually, I’m impressed that this “art professor” actually managed to get this operation working with volunteers and a mere $5,000. I’m sure if Homeland Security were ordered to do the same thing they would require at least ten million bucks and countless well-paid government personnel.
Los Ilegalantes: Tengo uno palaver para su vida:
REGRESAMOS!!!! tambien: RETURNO!!
Gustas su vida? Viva en Mexico!!
This tool will save lives!
I found some background info on the device and its proposal:
http://post.thing.net/node/1642
http://mobileactive.org/artivists-and-mobile-pho
I confess this is the first time I’ve heard of the term “artivist”.
This “professor” should be arrested anf put in prison for life!!!
TBT is not the correct acronym for Transborder Imiigrant Tool.
TIT is.
Need I say more?
Based on that idiotic reasoning we should provide fireproof suits to pyromaniacs and cadavers to serial killers.
Based on that idiotic reasoning we should provide fireproof suits to pyromaniacs and cadavers to serial killers.
Coyotes need dinner!
The border patrol should be waiting at the watering holes.
I see Nobel Peace Prize in store for sc*mbag Ricardo Dominguez.
BINGO!!
and as well kicking his ass,seize his property and assets to pay the cost of illegal immigration
The irony of his invention/project is that it will save the taxpayers money. Right now when illegal aliens run out of water on a trek across country they just call the local Border Patrol office on their cell phones and the agents have to go rescue them. Costs a fortune.
This is stupid and needle exchanges are stupid. Seriously, sometimes I wish I was dumb enough to be a liberal. Must be nice to just go through life as a happy idiot.
Truth! Not only that but it would be 2 years behind schedule.
...maybe we can hack into his program and put in a 180 degree turn somewhere so they all go right back to Mexico.
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