Posted on 05/25/2011 9:32:53 AM PDT by La Lydia
A humanitarian group said on Tuesday it has given emergency GPS location devices to Mexican human smugglers in a controversial bid to save immigrants' lives as they break into increasingly remote desert stretches of the U.S. border this summer. Rev. Robin Hoover, founder of Tucson-based Humane Borders, said he gave five cell-phone sized location beacons to a church group in Mexico's northern Sonora state earlier this month to distribute to human smugglers, known as "coyotes." The aim is for the coyotes to use the devices to summon rescue if they get into trouble as they guide migrants on the dangerous trek through remote desert terrain, where summer temperatures can top 115 F, he said...
Previous initiatives by the group include setting up water stations in the desert and giving out posters warning potentials migrants of the dangers of trekking north through the bleak wilderness, where deaths from exposure are common...
The deaths have risen over the past decade as security has tightened along the border and coincide with a decline in the overall number of arrests made by the U.S. Border Patrol, suggesting that the journey has become more hazardous.
But a spokeswoman for the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector warned that the devices would put immigrants at greater risk by giving them a "false sense of security right out in the desert."...
Hoover said the device, a McMurdo Fast Find Personal Location Beacon Model 210, has a five-year battery life. When activated it uses GPS technology to determine its location and sends an emergency signal to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite. When a distress signal is received, local search and rescue personnel are notified....
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Invaders.
Good point.
The GOP Republicrats want the Third World invasion just as much as their Dumbocan pals. The two major political parties are but two wings of the same bird of prey. They are both wholly owned by the same Globalist Banksters that want to dissolve American national sovereignty, turn the country into a Third World pit, and loot and lord over us like Kings.
Regards . . . Penny
open borders with GPS ping
Ping!
What the hell? GPS devices to AID the “coyotes” who traffic in human smuggling. They wouldn’t use it to help these people, they will use them to locate drug stashes and coordinate smuggling. What sheer idiocy, and by this clown’s action he ought to be up on charges himself for aiding a federal crime.
Wonder who paid for these devices.Someone with close ties to congress.
..I don't wish any harm to come to the smugglers....eeerrrr
...well, maybe a little harm...
...well hell.....a lot of harm...thirsting to death in the desert would be a fitting end to these people....
GPS devices for the road to hell that is paved with idiot intentions.
When a distress signal is received, the area is targeted with napalm, clusterbombs, and a coupla five hundred pounders just to make sure...
Give them GPS units that are programmed to take them to Mexico City.
Just back to Hermosillo or Durango would be good enough.
Someone should start a group to give them ones that don’t work.
¡Gracias, idiotas!
When we kick the wet’s out, make sure the REv. Hoover is with them!
How the hell can we stop the border madness when there are so many enemies within our border?
>>The smugglers are members of Mexican cartels. The Mexican cartels should be designated as terrorist organizations. Any American a$#*ole that provides aid and comfort to them should be locked up in a maximum security prison.<<
You would lock someone in a maximum security prison for drug use? Americans buying drugs equals money for the Mexican cartels which is legally considered aiding an abetting.
By the way, I don’t use drugs without a prescription or first paying taxes.
agreed.
I’;m pissed at our biased paid off Soros media, by this girlie fairy prancing around Europe lecturing our allies and doing yet again his out reach to islam and muslims.
I’m really pissed off with our GOP and the elitist establishment for not having balls to go after obama and this paid off media, I’,m B/S about it.
I;’d have never believed it unless I had read this
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm.
They have infiltrated our churches, military, political parties, media etc.
We the average people are being pissed on from a great height and then I see these republican elitist hacks say we have a good field running, er no we don’t we have gutless no balls people who will bend for the left as soon as they get power and will not do anything to stop this madness.
Ironically, Americans who commit your basic bread and butter assaults and such can now be charged with "terrorism" in some form.
More proof that the *current* purpose of the so called Patriot Act is to control AMERICAN CITIZENS, not foreign terrorists and the like.
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