Thread: TX: Border Patrol Needs Help From Property Owners

Border Patrol Needs Help From Property Owners
Thursday, July 12, 2007 - Plans for more border security are in the works, but the Border Patrol needs help from property owners in the Borderland.

The federal government has a plan to add more eyes along the border, but say they need cooperation from ranchers to make it work. The Border Patrol is working up a plan to add more surveillance cameras along a 70-mile stretch of the Borderland.

"This program specifically focuses on technology. So with that we're talking about, more than anything, the introduction or enhancement of towers, camera systems, communication systems- -things of that nature which will be vital to the area," says Doug Mosier with the U.S. Border Patrol.

Some of that surveillance may not only be placed along the U.S/Mexico Border, but on farmland as well, and the federal government is hoping ranchers will cooperate.

The Border Patrol says they need it all - agents, technology - even landowners to protect our border.

"All those things combined are really the tools you're going to need to make the agency more efficient," says Mosier.

As of right now, there is no price tag on this initiative, but Mosier tells us this new surveillance may begin as early as the end of next year.

http://www.ktsm.com/news/local/8478582.html

As of right now, there is no price tag on this initiative, but Mosier tells us this new surveillance may begin as early as the end of next year.

Personally, I'm ready to see Duncan Hunter's double layer fence built ASAP. One things for sure, you have to love the sense of urgency our government has regarding our security!