Thread: Texas to Install Security Cameras Along Mexican Border

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197911,00.html

SAN ANTONIO — The state plans to install security cameras with night vision along some of the most isolated and dangerous stretches of the Texas-Mexico border to monitor illegal immigration and drug trafficking, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday.

The $5 million project will send the images to state, local and federal authorities, Perry said. The images also will be posted on the Internet in real time, and if citizens see a crime, they can call an 800 number to report it.

"I look at this as not different from the neighborhood watches we have had in our communities for years and years," Perry said.

The effort is part of a border security initiative that Perry launched Thursday, saying the state must step up efforts in response to inactivity by the federal government. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Texas would receive a 30 percent cut in counterterrorism funding.

The governor said he'll allocate $20 million in this two-year budget cycle to continue Operation Rio Grande, an ongoing border security plan. That money will pay for officer overtime and equipment such as body armor, four-wheel drive vehicles and night-vision goggles. He plans to ask the Legislature next year to authorize $100 million more for the operation.

Also Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Charles Rodriguez, adjutant general of the Texas Military Forces, said he expects National Guard troops to be on the border this month. The troops are part of President Bush's plan to dispatch up to 6,000 National Guard members to states bordering Mexico to support the Border Patrol and help stem the flow of illegal immigrants across the border.

The effort is part of a border security initiative that Perry launched Thursday, saying the state must step up efforts in response to inactivity by the federal government. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Texas would receive a 30 percent cut in counterterrorism funding.

Yep yep can't have these states spending money in a constructive way. It might undermine the real goal of creating MexAmerica.

Maj. Gen. Charles Rodriguez, adjutant general of the Texas Military Forces, said he expects National Guard troops to be on the border this month. The troops are part of President Bush's plan to dispatch up to 6,000 National Guard members to states bordering Mexico to support the Border Patrol and help stem the flow of illegal immigrants across the border.

Lou Dobbs interview stated these troops would be gradually introduced and the full force may be on the border in August. Typical delay tactics. Keep that foot in the door of the open border ... let the number of illegals increase.

Hey JB, You just beat me with this one. Good thing I looked.

Oh yes, the illegals and coyotes will be soooo afraid of the night vision scopes, that they will immediately cease and desist. And stay home..

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING!

Do they actually think that we BUY that scopes make us safer. And people are supposed to call if they see a crime?....

WELL, EVERYTIME AN ILLEGAL ALIEN CROSSES THE BORDER, IT BREAKS THE LAW!

See my sig.

Hey JB, You just beat me with this one. Good thing I looked.