December 01, 2009 7:44 AM
Poll: 56% say border-crossing tool threatens national security
BY CINDY CARCAMO

POLL: Have your say on what you think of the GPS immigrant tool. Click here and go to the bottom right of the story.


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The poll was part of a story about an application still in the testing stages that is designed to point border-crossers to nearby water, show them safer routes and provide them with a series of poems to make them feel welcome along their way.

Individuals trekking north may soon be able to download the program into an inexpensive web-enabled cellular phone that would help them safely navigate the treacherous desert crossing between Mexico and the United States, known as the Devil's Highway.

Ricardo Dominguez, an associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego, was the leader in designing the tool. He is a principal investigator at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

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The team -- which involved a collection of researchers from different disciplines of study -- is hoping to have the application, called a Transborder Immigrant Tool, officially up and running by mid-2010 after a series of test runs in the desert to adjust the kinks and make necessary tweaks.

The news has already made its way into anti-illegal immigration Web chat rooms, enraging members of that movement.




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