[JackelopeBreeder]

I forgot to mention that the UAV video will be streaming live on the Internet as the deal goes down.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Ping!

[texgal]

Wow, what do we need to do to get you guys to work over here in Texas?

[Geezerette]

Awesome!!!! Gives us hope here in the Southwest!

g in AZ

[One_American]

It sounds good. ABP has made great progress. I just hope there will be enough Border Patrol people to back it up because I think they are going to be very busy.

[WorkingClassFilth]

You guys are unbelievably cool! Americans doing things for themselves and because it is the right thing to do - imagine that!

[LasVegasMac]

Now imagine what will happen when this particular news item comes out on CNN.

Our government will be chagrined yet again – and pissed at being one-upped by ABP yet again.

The Mexican government will be enraged – this will really interfere with shipping excess population (and drugs) north, and will cut into the flow of yanqui dollars going south.

The open borders bozos will be shocked, horrified, and shrieking like banshees.

I plan to enjoy that last part.

My enjoyment would be seeing the UAV firing 2.75" FAR's and just heard the critters back south, from whence they came.

Watching the reaction of CNN and the the Mexican government to that would be ---- priceless.

LVM

[Tancredo Fan]

I was able to watch the video being sent by ABP today.... very good. The fact that a border watchdog organization can get this sort of technology together and working so quickly is something else. Compare that to the Tom Ridge buffoon brigade and the fact that 9/11 was in 2001, and now it's 2003 and the idiots have completely ignored these sieve-like borders. Somebody needs to be removed from office... and you can guess at just who that might be. If you don't, just ask Helen Thomas.

[RLK]

Nice innovations in detection. Now, does anyone here seriously thing anything will be done about the invasion?

[SandRat]

CHA-CHING! I can hear Aztlanians Screaming Now. It's so sweet a sound. </...not allowed

[junta]

Can you pick up mule deer or javelina with it as well?

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[American in Israel]

Now that is the American way! If you got a problem, make something to fix it I love it! I would also love to get some technical information on the ground sensor equipment for some friends in Hebron. It would be dang handy to know they are coming before they start cutting holes in the fence.

There are large open valleys between most Arab villages and Jewish ones. Everybody builds on the hilltops. Your technology could save many lives!

Better to head them off with a searchlight across the valley than have a shootout up close. I don't think the UAV would be necessary in a fixed defensive position, it might be darn cheap life insurance.

[LNewman]

This is AWEsome, JB!

MORE Power to All Y'all!!!!

And did I mention I was in AZ ... and seriously tourist-footin' it in late May when I found myself at Meteor City? The day I was there, there was a guy yelling over the Interstate fence trying to get our attention. The proprietor of the "City" told us that the guy belonged to the (non-descript) tractor trailer on the exit ramp that had run out of diesel.

What's up with that? ;)

[c-b 1]

I have a question. If the UAV is circling 200 feet above the ground observing a mule train, wouldn't it be possible for the flank guards to shoot it down with their rifles?
It might be a lucky shot, but I would think for the safety of the UAV a higher altitude would be better.

[Pro-Bush]

Thanks for the update!

[oceanperch]

OK now that I read the article.
This sounds like a great tool.
Hopefully the Govt. won't see fit to cut the budget back so bad for ABP that they fiscally cannot continue.

Good Luck and keep up the fight.

[Ten Megaton Solution]

I see...

...legislation coming to limit the installation of ground detectors. I see the whackos demanding an Environmental Impact Statement for the installation of sensors on all national lands.

Certainly permission will not be granted to monitory national parks...so the invaders will concentrate their crossing even more heavily on these regions.

The Mexican government might shoot down UAV's near the border, and claim they were violating their "airspace".

How are the UAV's insured? A private organisation certainly doesn't have the funds to loft replacements indefinitely.

Good job showing up the feds for the incompetent boobs they are. Don't expect them to appreciate your efforts. Good luck.

Oh, one last thing. The first UAV that is shot down that manages to start a brush fire will signal the death of the civiallian UAV fleet.

[Missouri]

Most of you are already aware of the UAV developed by American Border Patrol here in Cochise County, Arizona.

Great story and great comments!

A co-worker of mine is into UAV's AND border control. E-mailed him this thread, hopefully more folks will become aware of your efforts to protect our borders. Then maybe our government will be embarrassed enough to do something.