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How Donald Trump’s name wound up on a plane flying over the Mexican border
Washington Post ^ | 8/25/15 | David Weigel

Posted on 08/25/2015 4:32:22 PM PDT by markomalley

Years ago, an engineer named Glenn Spencer bought a little compound on the U.S.-Mexico border from an Arizona farmer who was tired of the drug cartels' shoot-outs spilling onto his land. It became the home base of American Border Patrol, a company that would develop radars, seismic sensors, and drones to police the border -- a job Americans weren't doing, to coin a phrase.

Spencer, like so many immigration hawks, suffered through years of political disappointment, until he finally found salvation in Donald Trump. For the first time since 1996, he thought, a credible candidate for the presidency was talking about the threats coming across the border. Last month, Spencer appeared on former Arizona Rep. J.D. Hayworth's NewsMax show and invited Trump to personally watch the test of his new triple-threat radar/sonar/seismic detection tech, designed to catch anything unusual crossing the border. It could supplement the border fence that obviously, also, needed to be built.

"Those that will come can see firsthand the type of technology that is needed to see if the border is secure," said Spencer.

Trump could not make it, but according to Spencer, he assigned someone to watch. That inspired Spencer to paint the plane used to test the technology: "GO TRUMP." Trump's aide failed to show, but Spencer's enthusiasm was undimmed. His SEIDARM was detecting movement 500 feet across the border.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: illegalaliens

1 posted on 08/25/2015 4:32:22 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

http://americanpatrol.com/ABP/PHOTO-OF-THE-DAY/2010/IMAGES/100326.jpg


2 posted on 08/25/2015 4:48:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Hey,
what Is That ?

Did He fly over Campo California perhaps in 2005?


3 posted on 08/25/2015 5:25:53 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Big Red Badger

That is the plane Glenn Spencer uses to patrol the border.
I don’t think he flies over CA, just AZ.


4 posted on 08/25/2015 5:38:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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5 posted on 08/25/2015 5:46:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: markomalley
Trump could not make it, but according to Spencer, he assigned someone to watch. That inspired Spencer to paint the plane used to test the technology: "GO TRUMP." Trump's aide failed to show, but Spencer's enthusiasm was undimmed

Tells you all you need to know about the faker, Trump (D-NY) and his Trumpettes. He can walk on water, if he talks purty to his disciples.

Trump (D-NY) at the very least invested in this technology, right? He's very big on border security, right? He likely put at least as much money into this as he does fighting abortion.

6 posted on 08/26/2015 5:03:23 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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